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The gender gap in entrepreneurship : not just a matter of personality
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2014
Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354771
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133403
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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 …
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123532
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242619
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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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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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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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The cost of health insurance and entry into entrepreneurship
Fossen, Frank M.; Hossain, Md Mobarak; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2021
entrepreneurship. The literature argues that the guaranteed availability of health insurance introduced by the Affordable Care Act (ACA …) of 2010 could reduce this barrier to entrepreneurship and thereby increase entrepreneurial activity. In this paper, we …
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Risk preference and entrepreneurial investment at the top of the wealth distribution
Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes; Schröder, 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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