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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …
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Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25 European Union member states and the United States. The most surprising of …
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This paper empirically examines firm owners' gender difference in labor demand. We estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) of female ownership on employment of the firm using the 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS), provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Because...
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We empirically examine the effect of self-efficacy on entrepreneurial investment choices. We identify various attributes of entrepreneurial investment, and argue that higher self-efficacy is associated with more aggressive entrepreneurial investment decisions. We show that self-efficacy...
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Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship …
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rather than a binary employment-entrepreneurship decision and explores how cognitive determinants influence these choices. I … on a self-employment definition of entrepreneurship or on uni-dimensional drivers has obscured these more complex choices …
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entrepreneurship education) are higher correlated with the student employer entrepreneurs than informal institutions (role models …, correlated with entrepreneurship as a choice. Specifically, entrepreneurship education is the most relevant variable in …
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We empirically examine the effect of self-efficacy on entrepreneurial investment choices. We identify various attributes of entrepreneurial investment, and argue that higher self-efficacy is associated with more aggressive entrepreneurial investment decisions. We show that self-efficacy...
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similar characteristics. In a simple model of entrepreneurship, I show that estimates of mean and variance of returns to … entrepreneurship used by these previous studies are biased, as they are based on cross-sectional data and fail to account for the … entrepreneurship as experimentation and returns to entrepreneurship that are more attractive than established by previous research …
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. We also show that commercialization support induces entrepreneurship but may lead to mediocre entrepreneurship by … inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the … type of entrepreneurship. Using Swedish patent citation data, we find empirical support for predictions of the model …
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