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Entrepreneurs and freelancers are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German case

Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016

Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...

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Ethnic capital and self-employment : a spatially autoregressive network approach

Wang, Xingang; Maani, Sholeh A. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-24

effect of networks; it provides a better estimation of the impact of other socio-economic variables on self-employment; and …

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The impact of risk aversion, role models, and the regional milieu on the transition from unemployment to self-employment : empirical evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...

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Testing Lazear's jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship with German micro data

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

This paper tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack-of-all-trades view.

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

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Entering and leaving self-employment : a panel data analysis for 12 developing countries

Cho, Yoonyoung; Robalino Aguirre, David A.; Romero, Jose M. - 2015

This paper examines the determinants of labor market transitions into and out of self-employment (own-account work and employer), using panel data from 12 developing countries in multiple regions. Despite cross-country heterogeneity, a few consistent patterns emerge. Entering the labor market...

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Entrepreneurship, economic risks, and risk insurance in the welfare state : results with OECD data 1978-93

Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000

shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and … labor risk is found to be statistically significant and detrimental to entrepreneurship. The crowding-out effect of public … production of private goods on entrepreneurship dominates the crowding-in effect of public production of public goods in the OECD …

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The entrepreneurship beveridge curve

Gries, Thomas; Jungblut, Stefan; Naudé, Wim - 2016

, following labor market matching models. Setting out an endogenous growth model with entrepreneurship we derive a … Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve, through which we illustrate that entrepreneurial start-ups are the outcome of the efficiency with … which entrepreneurial abilities are matched with business opportunities. The Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve is a …

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Non-cognitive skills, occupational choices, and entrepreneurship : an empirical analysis of entrepreneurs' career choices

Sorgner, Alina - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small business 25 (2015) 2, pp. 208-230

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Job satisfaction and the educated entrepreneur

Carioti, Kristen - In: Journal of small business and entrepreneurship : JSBE ; … 27 (2014) 4/6, pp. 353-368

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