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Earlier research has shown that immigrant- and minority entrepreneurs have difficulties accessing capital through the formal financial markets. This essay studies what role immigrant employees within the local bank sector have for the probability of immigrants to run their own businesses. I use...
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context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …
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What comes to mind when thinking about a successful entrepreneur? Belief formation models suggest that what comes to mind is an oversimplified picture of the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, i.e, stereotypes about successful entrepreneurs. Using French administrative data on 48,767...
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We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...
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groups, it is important to understand the factors that underlie the nature and extent of ethnic entrepreneurship to evaluate …
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countries is favourable for entrepreneurship and job creation. Building on existing, yet disjointed theories on diversity, the … paper provides insights as to why different types of diversity may have different effects on entrepreneurship. We test our … predictions using multilevel modelling and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey of over 1.5 million people across 88 …
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differences. The study found that the non-Tiv group is significantly more inclined to entrepreneurship than the Tiv ethnic group …
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that, after the Reunification, entrepreneurship is higher among the residents of East German regions with West TV signal …
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compatible with the free-market economy principles and supportive of entrepreneurship. We show that during the 40 years of … socialistic regime in East Germany entrepreneurship was highly regulated and virtually impossible and that the prevalent formal … and informal institutions broke the traditional ties linking entrepreneurship to the characteristics of individuals so …
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combinations of leadership factors impact entrepreneurship in both its launch and consolidation phases. Two relational models are … on the entrepreneurship consolidation stage. Utilising data from 50 countries of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, a … that the use of some leadership capabilities has an unequal influence on entrepreneurship during its life cycle. This study …
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