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This paper uses firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019 and from the COVID-19 follow-up surveys conducted in 2020 in ten European countries to investigate the link between the gender of the firm's owner and firm survival until 2020.The estimated effect of female...
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This paper uses firm level data from World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019, and COVID-19 follow-up surveys conducted in 2020, in ten European countries to investigate the link between the gender of the firm's owner and the firm's survival until 2020. The empirical investigation uses...
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In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on … decision to become selfemployed to test for differences between women and men in the ceteris paribus impact of several … core finding is that the difference between men and women in both the extent and the effect of considering fear of failure …
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In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on … decision to become self-employed to test for differences between women and men in the ceteris paribus impact of several …
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In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on … decision to become self-employed to test for differences between women and men in the ceteris paribus impact of several …
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In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of … roles increases the probability of becoming an entrepreneur. The intuition behind this proposition is that entrepreneurs …. This paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing Lazear's hypothesis using a large recent …
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The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...
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Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are engaged in creating new ventures. This chapter reviews the international …
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