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Switching costs and occupational transition into self-employment

Henley, Andrew - 2009

Contemporary dynamic theories of self-employment choice focus on occupational switching costs, and the risk associated with entrepreneurial income streams. However little or no previous research has addressed the question of what factors determine the length of time that it takes aspiring...

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Does Self-Efficacy Affect Entrepreneurial Investment?

Cassar, Gavin - 2011

We empirically examine the effect of self-efficacy on entrepreneurial investment choices. We identify various attributes of entrepreneurial investment, and argue that higher self-efficacy is associated with more aggressive entrepreneurial investment decisions. We show that self-efficacy...

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Necessity and opportunity entrepreneurs and their duration in self-employment : evidence from German micro data

Block, Jörn; Sandner, Philipp - 2007

implications of our findings for entrepreneurship-policy making, and give suggestions to improve governmental start-up programs. …

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On the Sources of Entrepreneurial Talent in Italy : Tacit vs. Codified Knowledge

Federici, Daniela; Ferrante, Francesco; Vistocco, Domenico - 2007

There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent lies in the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. By determining the nature of the discovery and exploitation processes, institutions and technology play an essential role in shaping...

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Kauffman Dissertation Executive Summary : How Entrepreneurial Do You Choose to Be? Talent, Risk Attitudes, Overconfidence and Self-Selection into Entrepreneurship

Nguyen-Chyung, Amy - 2016

rather than a binary employment-entrepreneurship decision and explores how cognitive determinants influence these choices. I … on a self-employment definition of entrepreneurship or on uni-dimensional drivers has obscured these more complex choices …

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Does Self-Efficacy Affect Entrepreneurial Investment?

Cassar, Gavin; Friedman, Henry L. - 2011

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What makes a 'jack-of-all-trades'?

Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2009

mit der Kompetenzdimension verbunden zu sein scheint. -- entrepreneurship ; "Jack-of-all-Trades" ; competence ; desire …

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Skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology

Poschke, Markus - 2010

a positive relationship between an individual's potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms … consequence, the entrepreneurship rate falls with income per capita, average firm size and firm size dispersion increase with … income per capita, and entrepreneurship out of necessity falls with income per capita. The paper also documents, for two of …

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Schooling, capital constraints and entrepreneurial performance

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2005

We estimate the impact of schooling and capital constraints at the time of startup on the performance of Dutch entrepreneurial ventures, taking into account the potential endogeneity and interdependence of these variables. Instrumental variable estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point...

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Illegal entrepreneurship experience

Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004

entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of human capital, is related to the performance and motivation of …

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