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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship: Evidence from a representative immigrant survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-25

investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household … aversion and entrepreneurship. Our results show that the use of vignettes improves the significance of the results, as they … risk preferences and entrepreneurship reported in previous studies. …

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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: A survey of the literature for receiving countries

Nathan, Max - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-20

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...

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Religious diversity and entrepreneurship in transition: Lessons for policymakers

Nikolova, Elena; Simroth, Dora - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 5, pp. 1-21

Using the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, we show that localities with higher religious diversity have more respondents who have tried to set up a business. Although religious diversity also correlates with a higher start-up probability (following trial), this effect is driven by access to...

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less? : conference paper

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014

We compare, based on German data, the income of self-employed individuals with and without employees with the income of dependently employed individuals. Our results show that self-employed with employees tend to earn significantly higher incomes than their salaried counterparts, while with the...

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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees : conference paper

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2013

We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...

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Occupational choice, number of entrepreneurs and output: Theory and empirical evidence with Spanish data

Salas-Fumás, Vicente; Sanchez-Asin, J. Javier; Storey, … - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 1, pp. 1-24

distinguishing between SEWEs and SEWNEs in drawing valid conclusions concerning any link between entrepreneurship and economic …

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The role of need satisfaction for solo self-employed individuals' vs. employer entrepreneurs' affective commitment towards their own businesses

Schummer, Steffen E.; Otto, Kathleen; Hünefeld, Lena; … - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research 9 (2019) 63, pp. 1-18

Persistence in self-employment is crucial for entrepreneurial activities to generate long-term economic benefits. Consequently, this research examined the commitment of the self-employed towards their business as an important determinant of persistence. However, this research treats the...

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Disentangling succession and entrepreneurship gender gaps: gender norms, culture, and family

Feldmann, Manuel; Lukes, Martin; Uhlaner, Lorraine - In: Small Business Economics 58 (2020) 2, pp. 997-1013

gender gap in entrepreneurship, finding that the family may serve as a stronger influence than society when implied norms of …

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Verdienen Selbständige tatsächlich weniger als Angestellte?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 7, pp. 134-141

. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university entrance degree (Abitur) but no further professional …

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Immigrant businesses : the economic, political and social environment

Rath, Jan (contributor) - 2000

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