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This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate … entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of tacit knowledge between generations of entrepreneurs can arise: with … access to within-family ownership transfer, the outside market for entrepreneurship operates as a lemon's market. This …
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This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate … entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of tacit knowledge between generations of entrepreneurs can arise: with … access to within-family ownership transfer, the outside market for entrepreneurship operates as a lemon's market. This …
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. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology that fits with cross … a positive relationship between an individual's potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms …. Because wages rise for all workers, low-productivity entrepreneurs will then at some point exit and become workers. As a …
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Entrepreneurship has been characterised as one of the most intriguing but equally elusive concepts in economics. This … critical review first surveys its major intellectual roots and then proposes a modular concept of entrepreneurship that … definition identifies the only attribute that is both comprehensive and unique to the nature of entrepreneurship, while the …
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wages given up as an employee. Information on income from self-employment is of inferior quality and this is not just a …
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Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of … balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates entrepreneurship. Yet, none of these considers individual …
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entrepreneurs, and spend more time in entrepreneurship. Among entrepreneurs, more of the firms run by individuals with low wages … start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … in the market, and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage work …
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We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual's identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual's socialization. This could be...
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We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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