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We study the origins of entrepreneurship (culture) in the United States. For the analysis we make use of a quasi … entrepreneurial personality traits. Due to a genetic founder effect and the formation of an entrepreneurship culture, we expect gold … rush counties to have higher entrepreneurship rates. The analysis shows that gold rush counties indeed have higher …
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spot in entrepreneurship scholarship. As a first step to closing this gap, we offer a well-identified synthetic control … way for systematic scholarship on "war and entrepreneurship," our study proposes a conceptual framework integrating …
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Globalization brings both good and bad job news. The bad news is that jobs will be outsourced from high-cost developed countries into lower-cost locations as soon as the associated economic activity becomes mechanized and predictable. The good news is that globalization creates opportunities...
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crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …
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for people to become an entrepreneur. Based on a large-scale data set of nearly ninety thousand workers in India, this …, are found to be conducive to entrepreneurship, while others, such as Hinduism, inhibit entrepreneurship. In addition, the … caste system is found to influence the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Individuals belonging to a backward caste …
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External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their innovation as well as the project´s feasibility. Our...
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This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unem-ployment rates. On the one hand, high unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the "refugee" effect). On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased...
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spot in entrepreneurship scholarship. As a first step to closing this gap, we offer a well-identified synthetic control … way for systematic scholarship on "war and entrepreneurship," our study proposes a conceptual framework integrating …
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Entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship policies have a common goal—to spur entrepreneurial activity and its … entrepreneurs with the skills, resources and competencies they need to thrive, rich and poignant research in the entrepreneurship … with the requisite emotional skills and tools needed to harness the opportunities afforded from entrepreneurship rather …
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This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing...
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