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Entrepreneurship training, risk aversion and other personality traits: Evidence from a random experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Holleran, William - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 2, pp. 366-378
A growing literature examines the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurship, but no previous studies … explore whether personality or psychological traits predispose individuals to benefit more from entrepreneurship training. To … address selection issues, we use novel data from the largest-ever randomized control experiment providing entrepreneurship …
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Race and Entrepreneurial Success: Black-, Asian-, and White-Owned Businesses in the United States
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - The MIT Press
Entrepreneurial Success, minority entrepreneurship authorities Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb examine racial disparities in business …
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Determinants of Business Success: An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States
Robb, Alicia M.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of Asian-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a special nonlinear decomposition technique, we explore the role that class resources, such as financial capital and human capital, play in...
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Why Does the Effect of New Business Formation Differ Across Regions?
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We investigate regional differences of the effect of new business formation on employment growth in West Germany. We find an inverse ‘u’-shaped relationship between the level of start-up activity and employment change. The main variables that shape the employment effects of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090457
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The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree: Location of Start-Ups Relative to Incumbents
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...
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Direct and indirect effects of new businesses on regional employment - An empirical analysis
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We analyze different types of effects that new businesses may have on regional employment. We introduce different measures for employment change by separating employment change in incumbent businesses and employment change in new businesses. There are pronounced differences between regions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090591
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The Contribution of New Businesses to Regional Employment - An Empirical Analysis of the Direct Employment Effect
Fritsch, Michael; Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We investigate regional differences in the contribution of newly founded businesses to regional employment. This is labeled the direct employment effect of new businesses. The analysis is at the spatial level of West German planning regions for the period 1984-2002. We find rather pronounced...
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Are More Start-Ups Really Better? Quantity and Quality of New Businesses and Their Effect on Regional Development
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
at stimulating economic growth through entrepreneurship should focus on high-quality start-ups. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005009763
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Start-ups, New Business Employment, and the Effects on Incumbents: Who Contributes the Larger Share?
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We investigate the effects that new business formation has on employment in incumbent firms and compare it to the development in the start-ups. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1984-2002 period. It shows that the employment effects of new businesses on the incumbents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051048
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The persistence of regional new business formation-activity over time – assessing the potential of policy promotion programs
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 17 (2007) 3, pp. 299-315
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