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Self-employment in urban China : entrepreneurship or disguised unemployment?

Ma, Xinxin; Li, Shi - In: China & world economy 30 (2022) 1, pp. 166-195

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Social insurance and entrepreneurship : the effect of unemployment benefits on new-business formation

Xu, Wenjian - In: Strategic entrepreneurship journal : SEJ 16 (2022) 3, pp. 522-551

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The perceptions of individuals aged 50 years and older towards engaging in entrepreneurial activities

ElTamimi, Reham Abdelhafiz; Sweis, Nadia J. - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small … 42 (2021) 4, pp. 422-450

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The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...

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'I want to, but I also need to': start-ups resulting from opportunity and necessity

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2009

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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Self-employment and unemployment in Spanish regions in the period 1979-2001

Golpe, Antonio A.; van Stel, André J. - 2007

This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional level in Spain in the period 1979-2001. We estimate a vec-tor autoregression model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) using a data base for Spanish...

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Unemployment insurance and entrepreneurship

Røed, Knut; Baumgarten Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - 2013

programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the … entrepreneurship hazard is highly responsive with respect to UI incentives, and that the probability of starting up a new business … employment hazard, it has no effect on entrepreneurship. We speculate that this reflects the programs' one-sided focus on job …

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Determinants of entrepreneurs' activities : new evidence from cross-country data

Salman, Doaa M. - In: Journal of international commerce, economics and policy 5 (2014) 3, pp. 1-16

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Political and socio-economic change in the Middle East and North Africa : gender perspectives and survival strategies

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Insurance, entrepreneurial start-up, and performance

Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2014

Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...

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