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Testing the Survivalist Entrepreneurship Model

Fitch, Catherine A - 2009

The article, "Survivalist Entrepreneurship Among Urban Blacks During the Great Depression: A Test of the Disadvantage … Theory of Business Enterprise" (2000) by Robert L. Boyd is critiqued. Boyd attempted to show that joblessness during the …

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind : Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital

Wahba, Jackline - 2009

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced by returnees since overseas migration provides an opportunity for human and physical capital...

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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Entrepreneurial Culture, Occupational Choice and Tax Policy

Kar, Saibal - 2008

distribution of individuals from different groups is obtained by comparing expected utilities from employment and entrepreneurship …

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An Estimated Structural Model of Entrepreneurial Behavior

Jones, John Bailey - 2017

Using a rich panel of owner-operated New York dairy farms, we provide new evidence on entrepreneurial behavior. We formulate a dynamic model of farms facing uninsured risks and financial constraints. Farmers derive nonpecuniary benefits from operating their businesses. We estimate the model via...

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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations

Vladasel, Theodor; Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; … - In: Journal of business venturing 36 (2021) 5, pp. 1-21

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Does Entrepreneurship Promote Growth? A Model of Occupational Choice with Risk-Attitude Heterogeneous Agents

Jiang, Neville Nien-Huei - 2013

This paper studies whether promoting entrepreneurship is always growth-enhancing under a dynamic general … supply effect. The working of these two effects results in a non-monotone entrepreneurship-economic growth relationship. Due … individuals. As a result, there can be too less or too much entrepreneurship in the decentralized equilibrium. Although having …

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Launching with a Parachute : The Gig Economy and Entrepreneurial Entry

Barrios, John Manuel; Hochberg, Yael V.; Yi, Hanyi (Livia) - 2021

searches for entrepreneurship-related keywords increase ~7%, lending further credence to the predictions of our conceptual …

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Analyzing the returns to entrepreneurship by a modified Lazear model

Hårsman, Björn; Mattsson, Lars-Göran - In: Small business economics : an international journal 57 (2021) 4, pp. 1875-1892

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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021

is slightly better than that of the questionnaire, but lower than expected in theory. Interestingly, for those subgroups …

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