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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees : conference paper

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2013

We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...

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Gender differences in entrepreneurial choice and risk aversion: a decomposition based on a microeconometric model

Fossen, Frank M. - 2009

Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? Women have both to a lower entry rate into selfemployment and a higher exit rate in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which includes a standard risk aversion parameter. As inputs...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271131

Selbständige sind anders : Persönlichkeit beeinflusst unternehmerisches Handeln

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 78 (2011) 11, pp. 2-8

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Trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity : do these traits impact entrepreneurial dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 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...

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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - In: Economics of education review 37 (2013), pp. 66-84

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Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 42 (2014) 4, pp. 787-814

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The effects of non-compete agreements on different types of self-employment: evidence from Massachusetts and Utah

Can, Ege; Fossen, Frank M. - 2020

-employment into self-employment with incorporated businesses (as a proxy for entrepreneurship) and self-employment with unincorporated …

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Self-employment over the business cycle in the USA : a decomposition

Fossen, Frank M. - In: Small business economics : an international journal 57 (2021) 4, pp. 1837-1855

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Opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship : two components of business creation

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - 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 … entrepreneurship, there are many challenges to creating a definition that is both objective and empirically feasible. We propose an …

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Income taxation and hours worked in different types of entrepreneurship

Can, Ege; Fossen, Frank M. - 2023

We investigate the effect of personal income tax (PIT) rates on the number of hours entrepreneurs work weekly. Using the rotating panel data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey from 2003 to 2019, we estimate instrumental variable regressions in first...

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