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We examine how investor-level tax incentives affect financing for start-ups using the introduction of a generous tax deduction for qualified angel and VC investment in China as a quasi-natural experiment. We find that the tax incentive increases funding for eligible start-ups, with stronger...
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Exploiting variation in exposure to Chinese import growth across U.S. local markets, I investigate the effects of import competition on self-employment between 1990 and 2014. I find Chinese import competition had negative effects on self-employment during the 1990s. However, the negative effects...
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Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged … gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic growth. However, entrepreneurship is distributed … of entrepreneurship for both manufacturing and services. For both sectors, entrepreneurship (measured by new private …
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an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that … entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the … entrepreneurship. …
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We investigate the effect of exposure to air pollution on an individual's likelihood towards entrepreneurship using … panel data in China. To address omitted variable bias and endogeneity arising from self-selection into entrepreneurship and … propensity for entrepreneurship and a 34 percentage points decrease in the likelihood of entrepreneurial diversification. Our …
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Based on original survey data, this paper analyses and compares the role of personal traits and social capital in determining entrepreneurial intentions of students in Hong Kong and in Guangzhou (mainland China). The two cities are culturally closely related but differ strongly with respect to...
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This article reports on findings from interviews with a small group of Chinese female immigrants to Australia who have started up their own business since their arrival. Unlike most publications concerning immigration that focus upon financial factors, we have instead concentrated on their...
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