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What makes an employer?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2019
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122657
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What makes an employer?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2019
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123532
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What makes an employer?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2019
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133403
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Risk attitudes of nascent entrepreneurs : new evidence from an experimentally-validated survey
Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Fossen, Frank M. (contributor) - 2006
, however, that this is true only for people coming out of regular employment, whereas for individuals coming out of … ; self-employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003333112
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On the persistence of firm expansion : the survival of new jobs in Austrian firms
Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2005
While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less researched. The question when and how to expand a firm is of importance, both from the firm’s and from a macro perspective. Adjustment cost theories and arguments about option values...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729669
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On the persistence of job creation in old and new firms
Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
We suggest a new method to analyze the success of firm creation by looking at the persistence of new jobs created in old and in new firms. Compared to survival rates of new versus old firms, this measure has the advantage that the sustainability of job creation in different circumstances is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238451
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Entrepreneurship Over the Business Cycle in the United States : A Decomposition
Fossen, Frank M. - 2019
Entry rates into self-employment increase during recessions and decrease during economic upswings. I show that this is … persons have a relatively high propensity to become entrepreneurs out of necessity because they do not find paid employment. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864874
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Opportunity Versus Necessity Entrepreneurship : Two Components of Business Creation
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2018
A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship. Although there is general agreement in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929104
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The cost of health insurance and entry into entrepreneurship
Fossen, Frank M.; Hossain, Md Mobarak; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2021
Unavailable or expensive health insurance may hinder the transition of individuals from paid employment to … investigate how much the cost of health insurance when leaving paid employment - given availability of health insurance - matters … HIX plan by $100 per month decreases the annual probability of entry into self-employment by 0.25 percentage points, which …
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Risk Preference and Entrepreneurial Investment at the Top of the Wealth Distribution
Fossen, Frank M.; Koenig, Johannes; Schroeder, Carsten - 2021
We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using novel survey data from the top of the wealth distribution, which have been added to the 2019 German Socio-economic Panel Study. The data include private wealth balance sheets,...
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