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Long-term effects of shocks on new opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship
Congregado, Emilio; Fossen, Frank M.; Rubino, Nicola; … - 2024
deterministic breaks. We also present results for the different Spanish regions and industrial sectors. We find that hysteresis is … firm formation exhibit hysteresis, such that shocks, including those induced by temporary policy interventions, have … of new opportunity and new necessity entrepreneurship for the 17 Spanish regions. To test whether exogenous shocks have …
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Unemployment benefit duration and startup success
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Murmann, Martin - 2024
Business creation is economically important, and unemployment precedes the creation of a substantial share of new firms. Yet, most research has focused on analyzing the effects of unemployment insurance policies on re-employment outcomes, ignoring self-employment. In this paper, we analyze how...
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Entrepreneurial school dropouts: A model on signalling, education and entrepreneurship
Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik Baumgarten - 2012
I present a theory on the relationship between educational choice and entrepreneurship in a labour market with asymmetric information. The model shows that, in a labour market where education is used as a signalling device, an imperfect relationship between productivity in education and in the...
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
Drivers of entrepreneurial entry are investigated in this study by examining how entry into small-business ownership is shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering firms in various industries are shown to differ...
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
Drivers of entrepreneurial entry are investigated in this study by examining how entry into small-business ownership is shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering firms in various industries are shown to differ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518408
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Entrepreneurship and role models
Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - 2011
In the media role models are increasingly being acknowledged as an influential factor in explaining the reasons for the choice of occupation and career. Various conceptual studies have proposed links between role models and entrepreneurial intentions. However, empirical research aimed at...
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Entrepreneurship and Role Models
Bosma, Niels - 2014
In the media role models are increasingly being acknowledged as an influential factor in explaining the reasons for the choice of occupation and career. Various conceptual studies have proposed links between role models and entrepreneurial intentions. However, empirical research aimed at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068323
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Education Language Choice and Youth Entrepreneurship in Chad
Mallaye, Douzounet - 2018
Using the third Chadian survey on consumption and the informal sector (ECOSIT III), this study aims to assess the relationship between education language choice and entrepreneurship in Chad. By education language choice, we mean the choice between education in Arabic and education in French....
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Skill-Biased Entrepreneurial Decline
Jiang, Helu - 2019
The U.S. is undergoing a long-term decline in entrepreneurship. We show that this slow-down in entrepreneurship has been more pronounced for skilled individuals. Since 1983, the share of entrepreneurs among those with at least a college degree fell by 6 percentage points (pp) while decreasing by...
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TV and entrepreneurship
Slavtchev, Viktor; Wyrwich, Michael - 2017
Germany, West TV was exogenously available only in some regions of the latter. Using regional and individual data, we show … that, after the Reunification, entrepreneurship is higher among the residents of East German regions with West TV signal …
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