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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance

Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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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Entrepreneurial Ventures and Wage Differentials Between Germans and Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential effect on the wages of individual workers and can lead...

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The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that...

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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay?: Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

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The comparison of incomes of self-employed and salaried workers among German Nationals and immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2005

This paper attempts to compare the economic success of immigrants and natives in Germany. Employing data from German Socioeconomic Panel, the paper investigates the factors affecting self-employment as well as compares the income of self-employed and employed workers among four groups – West...

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Entrepreneurship in a Unionised Economy

Leppämäki, Mikko; Kanniainen, Vesa - CESifo - 2000

labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated … numerically. The main result is that an increase in union power reduces the equilibrium rate of entrepreneurship and reduces the …

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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay? Native Men, Turks and Other Migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

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; self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the...

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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen: Proclivity and Performance

Constant, Amelie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...

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Entrepreneurship: can the Jack-of-all-trades attitude be acquired?

Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Entrepreneurs are believed to be the ultimate engine of modern economic systems. Yet, the study of entrepreneurship … entrepreneur. This suggests that, if the JAT Attitude matters for entrepreneurship, it is an innate and time-invariant individual …

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