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Immigrant Versus Native Businesswomen : Proclivity and Performance

Constant, Amelie - 2021

Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...

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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen : Proclivity and Performance

Constant, Amelie F. - 2004

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Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; occupational choice ; immigrants ; wage ; differentials …

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Entrepreneurship in the region : breeding ground for nascent enterpreneurs?

Mueller, Pamela (contributor) - 2005

Statistics to study nascent entrepreneurship. In particular, micro data from the GSOEP characterizing employees and nascent …-up activity, strongly indicate that regions with strong tradition in entrepreneurship are a breeding ground for nascent … entrepreneurs. -- Entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; young and small firms ; GSOEP …

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Entrepreneurial Image, Gender, and the Formation of New Ventures

Werner, Arndt; Kay, Rosemarie - 2009

The decision to become an entrepreneur does not only have economic determinants. Using a unique data set of individuals who visited business start-up exhibitions and applying logit and probit techniques we show that entrepreneurial self-perception has a strong impact on entrepreneurial activity...

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"I Want to, But I Also Need to" : Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149521

Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity : It Pays to Be Self-Employed

Constant, Amelie - 2021

In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...

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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021

Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...

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

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2009

unemployment. -- Entrepreneurship ; push and pull motives ; survival and failure ; job creation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921269

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

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2009

unemployment. -- Entrepreneurship ; push and pull motives ; survival and failure ; job creation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932123