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-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model … are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000 adults in six transition economies. Estimated self-employment earnings premia … related to schooling, pre-transition family income, receipt of property in restitution, pre-communist family business …
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Niittykangas H. and Tervo H. (2005) Spatial variations in intergenerational transmission of self-employment, Regional Studies 39 , 319-332. Intergenerational transfers of human and non-human capital may motivate children to follow their self-employed parent. This paper analyses occupational...
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motivations to become an entrepreneur. First, we analyze the transition into and out of potential forms of entrepreneurship by …We characterize entrepreneurship in developing economies through a case study for Colombia. We document self … business ownership; there is surprisingly little transition between self-employment and business ownership. Second, we focus on …
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transition countries. Data from the Life in Transition Survey reveal that financial sector development and access to credit are … the most important drivers of entrepreneurship. Education is associated with a higher probability of trying to set up a …
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This paper examines the relationship between business dynamics (entry and exit of firms) and employment growth at the country-industry level. We use a cross-country data set with harmonized data on numbers of entries and exits for a selection of fast-growing and innovative industries in six...
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This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...
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This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …
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Il dibattito sulla frammentazione e fragilità del sistema imprenditoriale italiano di fronte alle sfide dell’economia della conoscenza e dell’internazionalizzazione si intreccia con quello relativo al funzionamento dei meccanismi di generazione e di allocazione del capitale umano. Tale...
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We compare the returns to education (RTE) for entrepreneurs and employees, based on 19 waves of the NLSY database. By using instrumental variable techniques (IV) and taking account of selectivity, we find that the RTE are significantly higher for entrepreneurs than for employees (18.3 percent...
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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
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