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indigenous entrepreneurship. These knowledge spillovers can lead to the establishment of new indigenous enterprises in the host … studies are concerned with the relationship between human capital and entrepreneurship (Bates, 1990), very few studies explore … the relationship between FDI, human capital and entrepreneurship. Using a combination of case studies and Global …
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Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect...
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L2, L26, O3, O4. </AbstractSection> Copyright Herrmann and Kritikos; licensee Springer. 2013
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability, and preferences for … rapidly growing empirical literature on entrepreneurship, however, have been able to test whether these factors are important … determinants of self-employment. Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability …
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.  However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined, despite the over-representation of … outcomes of native-born Americans.  However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined …
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Using confidential microdata from the Characteristics of Business Owners, we examine why African-American owned businesses lag substantially behind white-owned businesses in sales, profits, employment, and survival.  Black business owners are much less likely than white owners to have had a...
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Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be self-employed as white men.  The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self-employment that is approximately one half the white rate and a black...
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We show that entrepreneurship rates differ substantially across 60 ethnic and racial groups in the United States … of theories of entrepreneurship.  An ethnic/racial group's self-employment rate is positively associated with the …
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for the East German recovery of entrepreneurship after 40 years of socialist regime. We find different results for self … particular increase of solo-entrepreneurship. …
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