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Over half of all workers in the developing world are self-employed. Although some self-employment is chosen by entrepreneurs with well-defined projects and ambitions, roughly two thirds results from individuals having no better alternatives. The importance of self-employment in the overall...
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Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …
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Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative …
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We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and … not evident when focussing on entrepreneurship. Finally, we show that the misalignment between self-employment and our … proxies for entrepreneurship in rural areas disappears once we account for local labour market conditions. Our results suggest …
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We suggest a methodology for identifying the implications of alternative cultural and social norms embodied by religious denomination on labour market outcomes, by estimating the differential impact of Protestantism versus Catholicism on the propensity to be an entrepreneur, on the basis of the...
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successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …
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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
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attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
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investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household … aversion and entrepreneurship. Our results show that the use of vignettes improves the significance of the results, as they … risk preferences and entrepreneurship reported in previous studies. …
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successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …
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