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Why are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital
Robb, Alicia; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2021
Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family was not strong … racial differences in family business backgrounds can explain why black-owned businesses lag substantially behind white … owners have a relatively disadvantaged family business background compared with white business owners. Black business owners …
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Returns for entrepreneurs versus employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vis-a-vis wage employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
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Riding the Waves of Reforms in Corporate Law, an Overview of Recent Improvements in Italian Corporate Codes of Conduct
Sabatini, Fabio - 2006
This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312463
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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003926421
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Human capital diversity and entrepreneurship : results from the regional individual skill dispersion nexus on self-employment activity
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2013 - This version: 20.12.2013
Human capital has been shown to be highly important in the venture creation process. In this study, we account for the fact that human capital on the individual and regional levels may be interrelated in affecting entrepreneurship. We use German survey data, which allow us to focus on a specific...
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Ethnic capital and self-employment : a spatially autoregressive network approach
Wang, Xingang; Maani, Sholeh A. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-24
Immigrants experience substantial disadvantages in employment in the host country. "Ethnic capital" (e.g. the ethnic network) is argued to provide a niche for immigrants. Previous international studies adopt either ethnic concentration or language as proxy for immigrants' network in host...
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Was erklärt hohe Arbeitseinkommen der Selbstständigen? : eine Mikroanalyse mit Daten des sozio-ökonomischen Panels
Hirschel, Dierk; Merz, Joachim - 2004
Die Legitimität von Ungleichheit in der Einkommensverteilung basiert in Marktökonomien auf den Annahmen einer Dominanz individueller Leistungskomponenten für die Einkommenshöhe und der unterstellten Existenz von Chancengleichheit.Die Überprüfung der empirischen Relevanz dieser Annahmen...
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Educational Qualification, Work Status and Entrepreneurship in Italy : An Exploratory Analysis
Sabatini, Fabio - 2007
This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731696
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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...
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Il contributo del capitale umano imprenditoriale alla riqualificazione delle imprese
Federici, Daniela; Ferrante, Francesco - AlmaLaurea Inter-University Consortium - 2014
The connection between the weak performance of the Italian economy and the mechanisms governing the creation and allocation of human capital has been investigated only rarely. This paper argues that the Italian economy faces not just a generic shortage of human capital but a specific shortage of...
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