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The role of entrepreneurship in economic growth and development has been largely debated and acknowledged, both in … literature and in policy making. Wihin the context of the present crisis, at a European level, entrepreneurship development is … and initiatives to make entrepreneurship the growth engine of European economy and to put the principle of “think small …
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education. The topic is approached from a multi-fold perspective, at the interface among entrepreneurship, management and …
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Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of at least $10,000, and 27.2 percent more likely to hire employees than whiteowned businesses in...
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that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …
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Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self … of data often is insufficient and difficult to access due to language barriers. We present an analysis of Swedish self …
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The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship is consistent over cultures and countries, and is even higher in … small, indicating that children are no barrier to entrepreneurship, at least not when defined as self-employment as in this …
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There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in selfemploymentrather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We offer a focus on theopportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee. Information on income...
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See also the publication in <I>Small Business Economics</I> (2013), 40(3), 651-670.<P> Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e....</p></i>
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from own-account workers within the group of self-employed using data from the ECHP for 14 European countries. Our findings …
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adoptive parents, but also for their biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large …="http://press.uchicago.edu/journals/jole/forthcoming.html?journal=jole">'Journal of Labor Economics'</A>, forthcoming.<P> Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of … own entrepreneurship. We explore the origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we …
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