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Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Germany

Audretsch, David B. - 2017

, self-employment and entrepreneurship plays an important role, and in particular new venture creation by women. This chapter … aims to provide a snapshot on female entrepreneurship in Germany, with a focus on female immigrant entrepreneurship. We … analyze female immigrant entrepreneurship against its historical background as well as in the light of the recent ‘European …

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An Examination of the Entrepreneurial Effort

Lowrey, Ying - 2007

This paper examines the economic effects of entrepreneurial effort. It challenges the neoclassical doctrine of representative agent's utility maximization problem and suggests a return to the classical economic theory of the entrepreneur in the tradition of Max Weber and Joseph Schumpeter. From...

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The impact of firm performance on the business transfer mode

Kay, Rosemarie; Pahnke, André; Schlepphorst, Susanne - 2018

It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in self-employment rates. With representative German data...

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The impact of firm entry regulation on long-living entrants

Prantl, Susanne - 2010

What is the impact of firm entry regulation on sustained entry into self-employment? How does firm entry regulation influence the performance of long-living entrants? In this paper, I address these questions by exploiting a natural experiment in firm entry regulation. After German reunification,...

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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics : experimental evidence from Sri Lanka

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012

We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...

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Female Self-Employment : Prevalence and Performance Effects of Having a High-Income Spouse

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus - 2020

Little is known about self-employment as a career choice for women who marry a high-income spouse. We show that Swedish women who are married to a high-income spouse are, on average, highly educated and more likely to pursue self-employment than those married to a spouse in the middle of the...

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Correlates of business survival : empirical evidence on youth-owned micro and small enterprises in Urban Ethiopia

Woldehanna, Tasssew; Wolday Amha; Yonis, Manex B. - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 14, pp. 1-26

This paper investigates the effects of person-, firm-, industry-, and business strategy-specific characteristics on the survival of youth-owned urban micro and small enterprises in Ethiopia. It employs nonparametric and semi-parametric methodologies using a retrospective data. The hazard rate...

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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 … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

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Business survival and success of young small business owners

Praag, Mirjam van - 2003

Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small business owners in the U.S. Compulsory exits are...

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Sequence analysis in entrepreneurship research : business founders' life courses and early-stage firm survival

Heimann-Roppelt, Anna; Tegtmeier, Silke - In: International journal of entrepreneurial venturing 10 (2018) 3, pp. 333-361

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