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Entrepreneurship and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Sweden

Nykvist, Jenny - 2005

between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … wealth and transition into entrepreneurship is positive but diminishing for the major part of the wealth distribution …. Moreover, the relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship gets stronger as the models get less restricted with respect to …

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Entrepreneurship in Transition Countries:A Review

Aidis, Ruta - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2005

illustrates that as the transition process progresses, entrepreneurship development intransition countries is a story of … increasing divergence. The transitional context providesunique opportunities for entrepreneurship activities to develop. However …-based entrepreneurship as the free-market system matures within acontext with low levels of SMEs and inherited negative views towards …

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Individual and structural influences on the entrepreneurial activities of academics

Bijedić, Teita; Maaß, Frank; Schröder, Christian; … - 2016

, chair in entrepreneurship or awards for academic entrepreneurship) and (iii) network relationships simultaneously affect the … likelihood of engaging in entrepreneurial activities (nascent entrepreneurship) in academia. Using unique data collected from 5 ….992 academic scientists in 73 German Universities Germany, we find that entrepreneurial peers and performance based monetary …

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Mind the gap: Institutional and individual antecedents of entrepreneurial trajectories in the academic context

Bijedić, Teita; Chlosta, Simone; Nielen, Sebastian; … - 2017

(nascent entrepreneurship) and finally business creation (entre-preneurship) by combining two waves of a survey with a time …

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R&D employee's intention to exchange knowledge within open innovation projects

Nedon, Verena; Herstatt, Cornelius - 2014

The existing literature on open innovation strongly emphasizes on the organizational level, while neglecting the people side and especially the perspective of employees working in OIprojects. This study analyzes determinants of R&D employees' knowledge exchange in OIprojects by means of the...

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Inequality and Trust: Some Inequalities are More Harmful than Others

Gustavsson, Magnus; Jordahl, Henrik - 2006

We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from Swedish counties together with an instrumental variable strategy we find that differences in disposable income, and especially differences among people in the bottom half of the...

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Trust and Growth in the 1990s - A Robustness Analysis

Bengtsson, Mikael; Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik - 2005

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth for a later time period (the 1990s) and with a bigger sample (63 countries) than previous studies. In addition to robustness tests that focus on model uncertainty, we use Least Trimmed Squares, a robust...

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Free to Trust? Economic Freedom and Social Capital

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik - 2005

We present new evidence on how generalized trust is formed. Unlike previous studies, we look at the explanatory power of economic institutions, we use newer data, we incorporate more countries, and we use instrumental variables to handle the causality problem. A central result is that legal...

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Non-standard errors

Menkveld, Albert J.; Ter Ellen, Saskia; Wika, Hans Christian - 2021

In statistics, samples are drawn from a population in a datagenerating process (DGP). Standard errors measure the uncertainty in sample estimates of population parameters. In science, evidence is generated to test hypotheses in an evidencegenerating process (EGP). We claim that EGP variation...

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The happy artist? An empirical application of the work-preference model

Steiner, Lasse; Schneider, Lucian - 2011

The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that...

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