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The impact of entrepreneurial risk aversion on wages in general equilibrium
Feng, Ying; Rauch, James E. - 2015
One of the leading theories of entrepreneurship is that less risk averse individuals become entrepreneurs and more risk …
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Dynastic entrepreneurship, entry, and non-compete enforcement
Rauch, James E. - 2015
We investigate entry in a dynastic entrepreneurship (overlapping generations) environment created by employee spinoffs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528295
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The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology
Poschke, Markus - 2014
: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250019
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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2016
Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The … success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at … background and neighborhood effects as determinants of entrepreneurship, by estimating sibling correlations in entrepreneurship …
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Market size, productivity, entrepreneurship and income inequality in a model a'la Melitz
Pokrovsky, Dmitry; Kokovin, Sergej G.; Zhelobodko, Evgeny - 2013
) heterogeneous in their entrepreneurship abilities and choose between being employees or entrepreneurs. The sufficient conditions in …
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Entrepreneurship and firms' mobility : ERSA, Bratislava 2012
Pablo-Martí, Federico; García Tabuenca, Antonio; … - 2012
The location of new establishments is a major issue from the perspective of economic activity and the analysis of the territory. Although both its determinants and consequences are multiple and complex, most studies are focused on single factors or aggregate approaches. This paper presents an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514214
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Grown-up business cycles
Pugsley, Benjamin; Şahin, Ayşegül - 2014
We document two striking facts about U.S. firm dynamics and interpret their significance for aggregate employment dynamics. The first observation is the steady decline in the firm entry rate over the last thirty years, and the second is the gradual shift of employment from younger to older firms...
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The continued search for the solow residual : the role of national entrepreneurial ecosystem
Acs, Zoltán J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - 2014
This paper introduces a new concept in addition to the traditional measures of stocks of capital, labor, human capital and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a methodology that combines institutions and human...
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Who works for whom? : worker sorting in a model of entrepreneurship with heterogeneous labor markets
Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Hyatt, Henry R.; Janicki, Hubert P. - 2016
entrepreneurship is introduced, where individuals can choose not to work, become entrepreneurs, or work in one of the two sectors … entrepreneurship in the United States. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450865
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Entrepreneurship in the shadows : wealth constraints and government policy
Tumen, Semih - 2016
I develop a dynamic model of forward-looking entrepreneurs, who decide whether to operate in the formal economy or informal economy and choose how much to invest in their businesses, taking government policy as given. The government has access to two policy tools: taxes on formal business...
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