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Financial Constraints of Entrepreneurs and the Self-Employed
Mikhed, Vyacheslav - 2019
Growth-oriented entrepreneurial start-ups generate more economic growth than other self-employed businesses, yet they only constitute a small fraction of start-ups. We examine whether financial constraints impede these types of start-ups by exploiting lottery wins as exogenous wealth shocks. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857880
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Self-employment in times of crisis : the case of the Spanish financial crisis
Contreras, Sergio A. - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 3/88, pp. 1-14
While some researchers have suggested that the self-employment (SE) sector is a haven during a financial crisis, others …. Few researchers have compared the SE sector before and after the occurrence of a significant financial crisis, especially … in developed countries. This paper analyzes the determinants of entry into self-employment during the 2008 Spanish Crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131909
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Savings constraints and microenterprise development: Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya
Dupas, Pascaline; Robinson, Jonathan - 2009
This paper presents results from a field experiment designed to test whether savings constraints prevent the self-employed from increasing the size of their businesses. We opened interest-free savings accounts in a local village bank in rural Kenya for a randomly selected sample of poor daily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288156
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Savings constraints and microenterprise development : evidence from a field experiment in Kenya
Dupas, Pascaline; Robinson, Jonathan - 2009
This paper presents results from a field experiment designed to test whether savings constraints prevent the self-employed from increasing the size of their businesses. We opened interest-free savings accounts in a local village bank in rural Kenya for a randomly selected sample of poor daily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003943616
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Savings constraints and microenterprise development : evidence from a field experiment in Kenya
Dupas, Pascaline; Robinson, Jonathan - 2009
This paper presents results from a field experiment designed to test whether savings constraints prevent the self-employed from increasing the size of their businesses. We opened interest-free savings accounts in a local village bank in rural Kenya for a randomly selected sample of poor daily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003840197
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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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Immigrants and entrepreneurship : business ownership is higher among immigrants, but promoting self-employment is unlikely to improve outcomes for less skilled immigrants
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2014
successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420344
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Ethnic minority self-employment : poor paid employment prospects push minority workers into working for themselves, often in low-reward work
Clark, Kenneth - 2015
groups, it is important to understand the factors that underlie the nature and extent of ethnic entrepreneurship to evaluate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430234
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The persistence of regional entrepreneurship : are all types of self-employment equally important?
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2015
We explore the role of different types of self-employment for a persistence of the regional level of entrepreneurship … regarded a rather weak form of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288768
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The relationship between entrepreneurship and unemployment in Japan
Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Verheul, Ingrid; … - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372966