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Despite the importance of business creation for the economy and a relevant share of new firms being started out of unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes that ignore self-employment. In this paper, we...
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The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...
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We review and evaluate some recent contributions on the modeling of entrepreneurship within a neoclassical framework … describe it. However, each modeling attempt focuses only on one specific feature of entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurial … highlight how a simplistic interpretation of the existing mainstream approaches incorporating entrepreneurship runs the risk of …
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Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of … balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates entrepreneurship. Yet, none of these considers individual … entrepreneur. -- entrepreneurship ; occupational choice ; skills …
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employment in incumbent firms. This questions the effectiveness of policies that promote entrepreneurship to fight crises. We …
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employment in incumbent firms. This questions the effectiveness of policies that promote entrepreneurship to fight crises. We …
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This paper explores the personal, household and business environmental determinants of entrepreneurship in Kosova using … entrepreneurship behaviour of population while we find a weak positive effect of age and no significant effect of marital status … growing sectors such as construction together with regions in which entrepreneurship is more developed have significant …
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mit der Kompetenzdimension verbunden zu sein scheint. -- entrepreneurship ; "Jack-of-all-Trades" ; competence ; desire …
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Entrepreneurship is historically associated with risk bearing. Consequently, risk attitude is widely believed to affect … supposedly negative effect of risk-aversion on entrepreneurship selection. However, we feel not sufficiently confident about our …
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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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