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Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self … of data often is insufficient and difficult to access due to language barriers. We present an analysis of Swedish self …
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We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …
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employees towards becoming entrepreneurs: exit from the current firm and entry into entrepreneurship. In other words, we study … identification strategy based on comparisons of same-gender matches of bosses and employees, using rich register data for Denmark. We … show that same-gender entrepreneurial bosses have a great impact on employees’ future entrepreneurship choices, especially …
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entrepreneurship are low. We reconsider the pecuniary gains from this transition using a unified and flexible approach based on a mixed … model with heterogeneous returns to entrepreneurship. Addressing the issue of self-selection, we analyze to what extent … who do have a realistic alternative opportunity. Our data set covers the whole Norwegian population of individuals matched …
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We study possible motivations for co-entrepenurial couples to start up a joint firm, using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010. We compare their pre-entry characteristics, firm performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes...
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We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320274
The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282324
Private foundations became a vehicle for the corporate control of large listed firms in Sweden during the post-war era, but in the 1990s, they were replaced by wealthy individuals who either directly own controlling blocks or who own them through holding companies. We study potential...
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entrepreneurship empirically by means of investments made by active owners of closely held firms. Using detailed Swedish tax data, we …
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