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Statistics to study nascent entrepreneurship. In particular, micro data from the GSOEP characterizing employees and nascent …-up activity, strongly indicate that regions with strong tradition in entrepreneurship are a breeding ground for nascent …
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between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … wealth and transition into entrepreneurship is positive but diminishing for the major part of the wealth distribution …. Moreover, the relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship gets stronger as the models get less restricted with respect to …
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This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The central theme of the paper is that, with the exception of a recent paper by Audretsch and...
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through these stages. Data are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European …
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This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable ?quasi-experiment …? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …
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Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...
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We use longitudinal data over a decade on start-ups and employment in Swedish regions and analyze the effect of start-ups on subsequent employment growth. We extend previous analyses by examining the influence of regional start-ups in a sector on regional employment growth in the same sector and...
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. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …
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When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...
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of demographic and other variables on latent and actual entrepreneurship. Latent entrepreneurship is measured by the … is the lack of explanatory power of the perception of lack of available financial support in the latent entrepreneurship …
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