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Drivers of entrepreneurial aspirations at the country level : the role of start-up motivations and social security
Hessels, Jolanda; Gelderen, Marco van; Thurik, Adriaan R. - In: International entrepreneurship and management journal 4 (2008) 4, pp. 401-417
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Explaining preferences and actual involvement in self-employment : gender and the entrepreneurial personality
Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Grilo, Isabel; … - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 33 (2012) 2, pp. 325-341
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Factors influencing the entrepreneurial engagement of opportunity and necessity entrepreneurs
Zwan, Peter van der; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Verheul, Ingrid; … - In: Eurasian business review 6 (2016) 3, pp. 273-295
The scholarly literature often distinguishes between so-called opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship and between …
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Explaining preferences and actual involvement in self-employment : new insights into the role of gender
Verheul, Ingrid (contributor);  … - 2008
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AD/HD symtoms and entrepreneurship intentions
Verheul, Ingrid; Block, Jörn; Burmeister-Lamp, Katrin; … - 2012
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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
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Entrepreneurship and the business cycle : nascent entrepreneurship can have some predictive power over the business cycle
Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2014
Entrepreneurship has a cyclical component, raising two questions. Is the entrepreneurship cycle related to the business … cycle? And is there causality? A twoway relationship between entrepreneurship and the business cycle would be in line with … the two faces of entrepreneurs: as agents of change creating upswings (opportunity entrepreneurship) and as rational …
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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Grilo, Isabel (contributor); Thurik, Adriaan R. (contributor) - 2007 - This version: October 2008
covariates to differ across the various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer …
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The contribution of business ownership in bringing down unemployment in Japan
Stel, Andre van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Verheul, Ingrid; … - 2006 - : This version: July 2008
The relationship between entrepreneurship, measured by fluctuations in the business ownership rate, and unemployment in … different exogenous shocks as compared to other OECD countries, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not distinct …
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The lag structure of the impact of business ownership on economic performance in OECD countries
Carree, Martin Anthony (contributor);  … - 2006 - This version: August 2006
This note investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure. The analysis is performed at the country level for 21...
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