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Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries

Poschke, Markus - 2019

least a third of their relationship in the data. Labor market frictions reduce output not only by affecting employment, but …

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Persistence of entrepreneurship in different historical contexts

Fritsch, Michael; Pylak, Korneliusz; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019

Persistence of entrepreneurship over longer periods of time could indicate a culture of entrepreneurship among the … World War II, the relationship between historical and current levels of entrepreneurship is not significant. Persistence of … entrepreneurship is related to the historical success of regions, which we capture by the pre-war level of and self-employment in …

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Immigrants and entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)

successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …

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Institutional reform for innovation and entrepreneurship: An agenda for Europe

Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2017

to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. …

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Avoiding the housewife stigma: Self-employment as a female career choice

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2018

This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top of the income distribution are more likely to enter self-employment, which is also associated with a lower income. This can be interpreted as a career choice that produces a...

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The family - a barrier or motivation for female entrepreneurship?

Rønsen, Marit - 2012

The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship is consistent over cultures and countries, and is even higher in … small, indicating that children are no barrier to entrepreneurship, at least not when defined as self-employment as in this …

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The entrepreneurial culture: guiding principles of the self-employed

Noseleit, Florian - 2008

What makes entrepreneurs different? Using a cross-country dataset, this paper explores essential parts of the value system of entrepreneurs in Western European countries by comparing value items of the self-employed to that of the non-self-employed. The self-employed rate values higher that aim...

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Entrepreneurs' acceptance of formal institutions: a cross-country analysis

Freytag, Andreas; Noseleit, Florian - 2009

Institutional settings and the resulting incentive structures are crucial for economic development. The type of entrepreneurial activity and the entrepreneurial effort are especially dependent on underlying incentive structures. We argue that institutions with better incentive structures for...

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How long does it take to become an entrepreneurial society: The case of german convergence in self-employment

Schindele, Yvonne - 2010

data from 1992 to 2005 on 97 German regions to analyze recent convergence in self-employment rates. An astonishing catching …

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Latina entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 2009

We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze …

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