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Income loss among the self-employed : implications for individual wellbeing and pandemic policy measures
Schneck, Stefan - 2021
Due to the pandemic-induced economic crisis, self-employed individuals are currently suering considerable income losses. The self-employed and the members in their households usually form an economic unit. As a consequence, the income cuts not only aect the self-employed themselves but also the...
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It's the opportunity cost, stupid! : how self-employment responds to financial incentives of return, risk and skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720711
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The impact of firm performance on the business transfer mode
Kay, Rosemarie; Pahnke, André; Schlepphorst, Susanne - 2018
self-employment rates. With representative German data and unconditional quantile regression analysis we show that an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944325
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The effect of self-employment on income inequality
Schneck, Stefan - 2018
self-employment rates. With representative German data and unconditional quantile regression analysis we show that an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156983
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The returns to entrepreneurship : evidence from matched person-firm data
Praag, Mirjam van; Raknerud, Arvid - 2017
Empirical studies show low pecuniary returns of switching from wage employment to entrepreneurship. We reconsider the … transfers is used as an exclusion restriction to identify causal effects. The model is estimated on data covering the whole … indicate that the average returns to entrepreneurship are significantly negative for individuals entering entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732049
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The returns to entrepreneurship : evidence from matched person-firm data
Praag, Mirjam van; Raknerud, Arvid - 2017
Empirical studies show low pecuniary returns of switching from wage employment to entrepreneurship. We reconsider the … transfers is used as an exclusion restriction to identify causal effects. The model is estimated on data covering the whole … indicate that the average returns to entrepreneurship are significantly negative for individuals entering entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011722648
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Household inequality, corporate capital structure and entrepreneurial dynamism
Braggion, Fabio; Dwarkasing, Mintra; Ongena, Steven - 2014
equity, and 1880 farmland. We identify its effects on entrepreneurship by instrumenting it with land distribution under the … supportive of entrepreneurship such as schooling and the judiciary. Income per capita consequently grows more slowly …
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Age-specific entrepreneurship and PAYG public pensions in Germany
Heer, Burkhard; Trede, Mark - 2020
We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We document that both earnings and income are more concentrated among entrepreneurs than among workers and describe a large-scale overlapping-generations model that can replicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249285
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The impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2023
Many small businesses closed in the pandemic, but were economic losses disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings. Pandemic-induced losses to business earnings in 2020...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335844
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The impacts of Covid-19 on racial inequality in business earnings
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2023
Many small businesses closed in the pandemic, but were economic losses disproportionately felt by businesses owned by people of color? This paper provides the first study of the impacts of COVID-19 on racial inequality in business earnings. Pandemic-induced losses to business earnings in 2020...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336469