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Entrepreneurial culture, occupational choice and tax policy
Kar, Saibal; Mukherjee, Vivekananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
distribution of individuals from different groups is obtained by comparing expected utilities from employment and entrepreneurship …
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Entrepreneurship, taxation and capital investment
Kitao, Sagiri - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 11 (2008) 1, pp. 44-69
Augmenting a standard Bewley model with an entrepreneurial sector and occupational heterogeneity allows us to study important channels through which fiscal policies affect aggregate variables, factor prices, wealth distribution and welfare. To disentangle the forces involved, we consider...
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The Wealth Tax and Entrepreneurial Activity
Hansson, Åsa - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2005
Entrepreneurship is often credited with generating important positive economic externalities. For example … spillover. Governments increasingly view encouraging entrepreneurship as an important policy objective. Economists have long … studied the determinants of entrepreneurship. Taxation has also been found to be important, in particular income taxes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645114
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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice: Empirical Evidence from Germany
Fossen, Frank M.; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Entrepreneurial activity is often regarded as an engine for economic growth and job creation. Through tax policy, governments possess a potential lever to influence the decisions of economic agents to start and close small businesses. In Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566693
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Trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity: Do these traits impact entrepreneurial dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 2, pp. 394-409
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573775
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784518
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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of an entrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence that more risk-averse...
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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay? Native Men, Turks and Other Migrants in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition; self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the...
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Foundations of High Impact Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This survey reviews the theoretical literature on high impact entrepreneurship. The survey is guided in part by the … recent classification changes at the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) regarding entrepreneurship. The board voted to … create a new classification code, L26, for entrepreneurship. The JEL intends to use this code for all articles and books that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970272
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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256702