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Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are engaged in creating new ventures. This chapter reviews the international evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who they are, what makes them different, and which ones see their vision through to eventual start-up.
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patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant entrepreneurship are quite similar and broadly in line with our … theoretical priors - both types of entrepreneurship are fostered by the width of experience and a role model in the family, and …
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We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts—and the data confirm—that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …
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In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of …. This paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing Lazear's hypothesis using a large recent …
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We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …
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The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...
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