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Business Accomplishments, Gender, and Entrepreneurial Self-Image
Thurik, Roy - 2009
callthemselves entrepreneurs.The data also suggest that women are less likelythan men to view themselves as entrepreneurs and tend to … individualsperceive themselves to be entrepreneurs.Following a review of theliterature on the relationships among gender business … higher entrepreneurial self-image thanthose without such accomplishments. The second hypothesis predicts that women will …
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The Role of Dissatisfaction and Per Capita Income in Explaining Self-Employment Across 15 European Countries
Thurik, Roy - 2009
The differences in the rate of self-employmentduring the period 1978 to 2000 across 15 European countries is explained, focusing on the influence of dissatisfaction and per capita income as determinants of aggregate self-employment.Measures of aggregated dissatisfaction are used in combination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154785
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Determinants of Job Satisfaction Across the EU-15 : A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees
Millán, José María - 2011
Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel … for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in … terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of job security. Findings from our generalized ordered logit regressions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129857
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Determinants of Job Satisfaction across the EU-15: A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees
Millan, Jose Maria; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; … - 2011
Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel … for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in … terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of job security. Findings from our generalized ordered logit regressions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325936
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Jorn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, Roy - 2014
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 instru-mental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196996
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Culture's Role in Entrepreneurship : Self-Employment Out of Dissatisfaction
Hofstede, Geert; Noorderhaven, N.; Thurik, Roy; … - 2009
This research investigation addresses why somecountries have more entrepreneurs than others. To investigate …. The bivariate relationship between levelof entrepreneurship and a number of economic factors, cultural traits … thelevel of entrepreneurship at the aggregated societal level. Findings indicate that the factors determining level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201892
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Encountered Problems and Outcome Status in Nascent Entrepreneurship
Gelderen, Marco van - 2010
the U.S. PSED (Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics) in which a sample of 414 nascent entrepreneurs were followed over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757797
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Understanding Entrepreneurship Across Countries and Over Time
Audretsch, David B. - 2011
The Eclectic Theory of entrepreneurship isintroduced.The purpose of the theory is to provide a coherent …,interdisciplinary framework for understanding and analyzing what determinesentrepreneurship.The determinants of entrepreneurship in … least two important insights about theprevalence and the determinants of entrepreneurship in the countriesstudied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134138
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Entrepreneurial Activity, Self-Perception and Gender
Verheul, I.; Uhlaner, Lorraine M.; Thurik, Roy - 2012
entrepreneurship, as well as direct and indirect effects of gender. Results support the model of both direct and indirect effects of … gender. The paper provides insights into gender issues in entrepreneurship as well as the definition of entrepreneurship in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092508
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Explaining Preferences and Actual Involvement in Self-Employment : New Insights into the Role of Gender
Verheul, I. - 2013
This paper investigates why women's self-employment rates are consistently lower than those of men. It has three focal … used (the 2004 Flash Eurobarometer survey). The findings show that women's lower preference for becoming self … point at gender-based obstacles to entrepreneurship …
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