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Schooling, capital constraints and entrepreneurial performance
Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2005
We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337974
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Intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship?
Parker, Simon C. - 2009
employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative … sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06 uncovers systematic differences between the drivers of nascent entrepreneurship … opportunities which sell to other businesses. Implications of the findings are discussed. -- Nascent entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848568
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Why Are Some People More Likely to Become Small-Businesses Owners than Others : Entrepreneurship Entry and Industry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2020
We classify industries using measures of entry barriers and proceed to investigate how determinants of entry vary in high- as opposed to low-barrier fields. The wealth and educational background characteristics potential entrepreneurs possess, we found, predispose them to make distinctly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012856801
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118276
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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network
Inci, Eren - 2012
We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111216
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Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?
Parker, Simon C. - 2010
employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative … sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06 uncovers systematic differences between the drivers of nascent entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152609
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117187
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A selection-based theory of the transition from employment to entrepreneurship : the role of employer size
Parker, Simon C. (contributor) - 2006
. -- entrepreneurship ; occupational choice ; firm size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003309268
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Entrepreneurship among married couples in the United States : a simultaneous probit approach
Parker, Simon C. (contributor) - 2005
determinants of business ownership in America. -- entrepreneurship ; occupational choice ; family ; business ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003053136
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Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance
Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2014
To what extent is the performance of a small business venture, once started, affected by capital constraints at the time of inception and by the business founder's investment in human capital? We attempt to answer this question taking into account the potential endogeneity of human and financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028237