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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826247
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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380037
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Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship? : the impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gassebner, Martin (contributor) - 2007
The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test whether regulations robustly deter firm entry into the markets. Our results show that some regulations are indeed important determinants of entrepreneurial activity. Specifically,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762839
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Institutional influences on strategic entrepreneurial behaviours
Autio, Erkko; Acs, Zoltán J. - 2009
regime will moderate negatively the relationship between an individual's education and her growth aspirations and moderate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882956
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Ethnic minority self-employment in Germany : geographical distribution and determinants of regional variation
Bruder, Jana; Räthke-Döppner, Solvig - 2008
In Germany self-employment among foreigners increased significantly in recent years. We study the geographical distribution of ethnic minority self-employment in Germany and find determinants for variations in start-up activities across 440 administrative German regions. We analyze the Statistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003886976
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What’s the difference?! : gender, personality, and the propensity to start a business
Furdas, Marina; Kohn, Karsten - 2010
Women start fewer businesses than men. The start-up rate among women in Germany falls short of males' start-up rate by one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large-scale population survey on start-up activity in Germany. As a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941456
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How do local labor market conditions and individual characteristics affect quitting selfemployment?
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2010 - This version: 15.01.2010
This paper investigates the joint effect of local labor market conditions and individual differences on the duration of self-employment periods. Using register based, data the study focuses on previously unemployed business founders who have received public support to realize their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009526295
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Wages in high-tech start-ups : do academic spin-offs pay a wage premium?
Dorner, Matthias; Fryges, Helmut; Schopen, Kathrin - 2015
Due to their origin from universities, academic spin‐offs operate at the forefront of the technological development. Therefore, spin‐offs exhibit a skill‐biased labour demand, i.e. spin‐offs have a high demand for employees with cutting edge knowledge and technical skills. In order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532473
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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US
Grilo, Isabel (contributor); Thurik, Adriaan R. (contributor) - 2007 - This version: October 2008
The process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from "never thought about starting a business" to "gave up", "thinking about it" , "taking steps for starting up" , "having a young business" , "having an older business" and "no longer being an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280360
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Foreign direct investment and domestic entrepreneurship : blessing or curse?
Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Estrin, Saul; Reynolds, Paul … - 2013
This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro‐panel of more than two thousand individuals disaggregated by industry in seventy countries including both developed and developing economies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224595