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entrepreneurship combining personal and contextual factors. Empirical results demonstrate that intentions to start a science-based new … scientists' sense of identification with these peers. A mediation analysis further indicates that gender-related differences in …
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Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...
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one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large …, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice … models and employing decomposition techniques, we find that gender differences in socio-demographics alone would even be in …
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We investigate the impact of new business formation on regional employment. The main effects occur after a considerable time lag. Obviously, a large part of the effect is not due to job creation by the newcomers but rather is of indirect nature. This implies that a large part of the debate about...
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characterized by different growth regimes in which new firms and entrepreneurship assume different roles and accordingly lead to … durch unterschiedliche Wachstumsregime gekennzeichnet sind in denen Gründungen und Entrepreneurship unterschiedliche Rollen …
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entrepreneurship. These factors also seem to be responsible for changes in the level of regional new business formation. In addition … Innovationsaktivitäten und von Entrepreneurship stellen geeignete Ansatzpunkte für eine Politik dar, die auf eine Steigerung der …
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In our analysis of the impact of new firm formation on regional employment change we identified considerable time lags. We investigated the structure and extent of these time lags by applying the Almon lag model and found that new firms can have both a positive and a negative effect on regional...
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characterized by different growth regimes in which new firms and entrepreneurship assume different roles and accordingly lead to … durch unterschiedliche Wachstumsregime gekennzeichnet sind in denen Gründungen und Entrepreneurship unterschiedliche Rollen …
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financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
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We examine gender differences in trust in another party's cooperation (CC) or its ability (AC). While men and women do … not differ concerning trust in cooperation, gender has a strong influence when trust in another subject's ability is …
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