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The 2 D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...
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, we use rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1985 to 2017 and a difference … this traumatic event. Our findings imply that policies encouraging entrepreneurship should also carefully consider the …
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of active small businesses in the United States using nationally representative data from the April 2020 CPS – the first …
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comparative analysis of the development of entrepreneurship in East and West Germany after World War II. The introduction of an … decades later were major historical shocks to the economy in general, and to entrepreneurship specifically. Our comparative … analysis of East and West Germany assesses how these shocks affected the level of entrepreneurship at the regional level …
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Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...
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Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...
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Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However, we document that immigrant self-employment...
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entrepreneurship. Moreover, we compare prototyping with entrepreneurial profiling, another person-oriented approach to the Big Five …, which assumes that low levels of agreeableness and high levels of all other traits describe a particular entrepreneurship …-prone personality. By using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that at least three prototypes can be identified …
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Corporate income taxation influences the quantity and type of entrepreneurship, which in turn affects economic … development. Empirical evidence shows that higher corporate income tax rates reduce business density and entrepreneurship entry … rates and increase the capital size of new firms. The progressivity of tax rates increases entrepreneurship entry rates …
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administrative firm-level panel data covering the universe of businesses filing sales taxes from the California Department of Tax and …
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