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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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This study documents that the survival of start-ups is central in explaining the relationship between entry and regional employment growth. Distinguishing between start-ups according to the period of their survival shows that the positive effect of new business formation on employment growth is...
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The ability to adjust to structural change is vital to economic development, and entries can be active participants in this process. While the importance of factor reallocations for growth is widely discussed, the role of entrepreneurs in managing these reallocations is currently not well...
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opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …
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A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth – net housing equity – for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity …
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We investigate the role of industry and region-specific conditions for the survival of new businesses in innovative and in other manufacturing industries. The data comprises all German manufacturing start-ups of the 1992 to 2005 period. In contrast to studies for some other countries, we find...
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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explore the relationship between computer ownership and entrepreneurship. Trends over the past two decades provide some … evidence of a positive relationship between home computers and entrepreneurship rates, but the evidence is not clear. In … contrast, an analysis of the relationship between computer ownership and entrepreneurship at the individual level provides …
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Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census …
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