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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs
Fonseca, Raquel (contributor);  … - 2007
We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609770
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Employment choices and pay differences between non-standard and standard work in Britain, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden
Gustafsson, Siv S.; Kenjoh, Eiko; Wetzels, Cécile M. M. P. - 2001
, GSOEP for Germany, OSA for the Netherlands and HUS for Sweden.The reason for analysing and comparing four countries is an … women in the other three countries. Similarly the probabilityof being self employed for men in Sweden is much higher than in … the other three countries. Furthermorewe find part-time workers relatively better paid in Sweden and the Netherlands than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317442
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Employment choices and pay differences between non-standard and standard work in Britain, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden
Gustafsson, Siv S.; Kenjoh, Eiko; Wetzels, Cécile M. M. P. - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001611743
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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints, and Start-Up Costs
Fonseca, Raquel - 2008
We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773454
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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-Up Costs
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2021
We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316960
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Firm formation with complementarities : the role of the entrepreneur
Roessler, Christian; Koellinger, Philipp - 2011
We model entrepreneurship and the emergence of firms as a result of simultaneous bidding for labor services among heterogeneousagents. Unique to our approach is that occupational choices, jobmatching and organizational forms are determined simultaneously, sothat the opportunity costs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377467
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Who values the status of the entrepreneur?
Praag, Mirjam van - 2009
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes people’s occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current study focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378334
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Entrepreneurship selection and performance
Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, … - 2004
This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year of schooling in developing economies raises enterprise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333877
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Educational mismatches for second generation migrants : an analysis of applied science graduates in the Netherlands
Falcke, Swantje; Meng, Christoph; Nollen, Romy - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542948
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Occupational sorting of school graduates : the role of economic preferences
Fouarge, Didier; Kriechel, Ben; Dohmen, Thomas - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426460