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Long-term effects of shocks on new opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship
Congregado, Emilio; Fossen, Frank M.; Rubino, Nicola; … - 2024
deterministic breaks. We also present results for the different Spanish regions and industrial sectors. We find that hysteresis is … firm formation exhibit hysteresis, such that shocks, including those induced by temporary policy interventions, have … of new opportunity and new necessity entrepreneurship for the 17 Spanish regions. To test whether exogenous shocks have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517310
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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 endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
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 endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380037
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Effects of entrepreneurship education at universities
Slavtchev, Viktor; Laspita, Stavroula; Patzelt, Holger - 2012
This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the short-term (immediately after graduation) and in the long-term (five years after graduation). A difference-in-differences approach is applied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009544381
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Jorn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, Roy - 2014
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instru-mental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196996
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Opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship : two components of business creation
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - 2018
A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship. Although there is general agreement in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785732
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How aging affects opportunity-necessity entrepreneurship : demographic and perceptual view
Chang, Yu-Yu; Sanchez-Loor, Daniel A.; Hsieh, Hui-Ching; … - In: Australian journal of management 48 (2023) 1, pp. 67-89
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I can't get no satisfaction : necessity entrepreneurship and procedural utility
Block, Jörn; Koellinger, Philipp - 2008
We study a unique sample of 1,547 nascent entrepreneurs in Germany and analyze which factors are associated with their self-reported satisfaction regarding their start-up. Our study identifies a new facet of procedural utility and offers new insights about the motivations and goals of nascent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376664
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Self-employment dynamics, state dependence and cross-mobility patterns
Caliendo, Marco; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2008
This paper analyzes the mobility between self-employment, wage employment and non-employment. Using data for men in West Germany, we find strong true state dependence in all three states. Moreover, compared to wage employment, non-employment increases the probability of self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634163
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How long does it take to become an entrepreneurial society: The case of german convergence in self-employment
Schindele, Yvonne - 2010
data from 1992 to 2005 on 97 German regions to analyze recent convergence in self-employment rates. An astonishing catching …-up process is observed for East German regions during the period under study. However, the general convergence between East and … regions have achieved convergence with West German self-employment rates and some have not. …
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