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Immigrants and entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …
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Ethnic minority self-employment
Clark, Ken - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
groups, it is important to understand the factors that underlie the nature and extent of ethnic entrepreneurship to evaluate …
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Immigrants and entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)
successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …
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Immigrant entrepreneurship in Romania: Drawing best practices from Middle Eastern immigrant entrepreneurs' experiences
Ozmen, Ozgur; Grosu, Raluca Mariana; Dragusin, Mariana - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 23 (2021) 56, pp. 260-275
Migrant entrepreneurship represents a topic of a high societal and academic significance. For a host country, immigrant … field research carried out between July 2017 and December 2018, the present paper approaches immigrant entrepreneurship in …
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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees : conference paper
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2013
We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...
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Corporate income taxes and entrepreneurship
Block, Jörn - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Corporate income taxation influences the quantity and type of entrepreneurship, which in turn affects economic … development. Empirical evidence shows that higher corporate income tax rates reduce business density and entrepreneurship entry … rates and increase the capital size of new firms. The progressivity of tax rates increases entrepreneurship entry rates …
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What can be expected from productive inclusion programs?
Rigolini, Jamele - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Productive inclusion programs provide an integrated package of services, such as grants and training, to promote self-employment and wage employment among the poor. They show promising long-term impacts, and are often proposed as a way to graduate the poor out of social assistance. Nevertheless,...
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Self-employment in Germany: The trend has been increasing for some time
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 2 (2012) 3, pp. 17-26
Entrepreneurial self-employment in Germany has undergone a strong upturn in the last 20 years. The number of self-employed people rose by 40 percent between 1991 and 2009. The reasons for this development are the catch-up processes in eastern Germany, structural change towards the service...
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Are Risk Attitudes and Individualism Predictors of Entrepreneurship? A Multivariate Analysis of Romanian Data
Hatos, Adrian; Hatos, Roxana; Bădulescu, Alina; … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 17 (2015) 38, pp. 148-161
entrepreneurship. More specific, it focuses on elaborating and empirically testing hypotheses related to structural push and pull … analysis confirm the importance of risk aversion for entrepreneurship, as expected, but reject the hypothesis of a significant …
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2D:4D and Self-Employment: A Preregistered Replication Study in a Large General Population Sample
Fossen, Frank M.; Neyse, Levent; Johannesson, Magnus; … - In: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 46 (2022) 1, pp. 21-43
The 2D: 4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the second finger to the length of the fourth finger, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study reported, among other things, an association between the left-hand 2D:4D and self-employment in a sample of 974...
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