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The effect of financial aid on student persistence in a two-year institution
Kelley, W. Jean - 1999
This study utilized an ex post facto design to examine the relationship between student persistence and receipt of financial aid in the non-traditional student population at a Southwestern Connecticut community-technical college. The sample population size was 739 and consisted of matriculated...
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Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia - 2003
Using data from the confidential and restricted-access Characteristics of Business Owners (CBO) Survey, we provide some suggestive evidence on the causes of intergenerational links in business ownership and the related issue of how having a family business background affects small business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444181
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Three Essays on Firm Behavior and Entrepreneurship in Former Yugoslav Republics.
Koman, Matjaz - 2009
and entrepreneurship in selected former Yugoslav countries. The goal was to determine whether firms’ objective remains the … firms, entrepreneurship, and self-employment.The answers and insights provided by these three essays reveal that merely … entrepreneurship and therefore cannot always serve as a basis for future growth. The first essay uses Macedonian firm-level data to …
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Schooling, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance
Praag, C.M. van; Parker, S.C. - 2004
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...
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Education and Entrepreneurship in Industrialized Countries: A Meta-analysis
Sluis, J. vander; Praag, C.M. van; Vijverberg, W. - 2004
This paper provides a meta-analytical review of empirical studies into the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship … selection and performance. We first describe the main effects found in the current entrepreneurship literature. We then explain … conclusions result from this meta-analysis. First, we find that the impact of education on selection into entrepreneurship is …
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Three Essays on Self-Employment Transitions, Organizational Capital, and Firm Formation
Deli, Fatma - 2011
This dissertation explores how economic, organizational, and personal factors affect self-employment transitions, occupational decisions, and firm formation activities of individuals at different positions in the skill distribution. The first essay of my dissertation studies how local...
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Risk preference and employment contract type
Farrell, Lisa; Brown, Sarah; Harris, Mark N.; Sessions, … - 2006
We explore the possibility that a systematic relationship exists between employment within a particular type of contract and risk preference. We exploit a set of proxies for risk preference, whereby some of the proxies capture risk loving behaviour (expenditure on gambling, smoking and alcohol)...
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Inequality for wage earners and self-employed : evidence from panel data
Albarrán, Pedro; Carrasco, Raquel; Martínez-Granado, Maite - 2007
In this paper we study the evolution of income inequality for employees and self-employed workers. We highlight the importance of separately analyzing these different sources of income to gain a broader understanding of inequality. Using Spanish panel data on income and consumption from the ECPF...
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Characterisation of self-employment in Spain from a European perspective
García Perea, Pilar; Román, Concepción
Artículo de revista ; In Spain,self-employment currently accounts for 16% of those employed, a proportion slightly higher than the EU average. Compared with the prevailing structure among employees, it is males, the over-50s, those with a low level of educational attainment and those employed...
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The challenge of measuring digital platform work
Gómez García, Marina; Hospido Quintana, Laura
Artículo de revista ; The article presents an overview of digital platform work in Spain and analyses the challenge of quantifying this work in view of the lack of reliable and comprehensive data available. Digital platforms are technological infrastructures that act as intermediaries,...
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