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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship : evidence from a representative immigrant survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-25

investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household … aversion and entrepreneurship. Our results show that the use of vignettes improves the significance of the results, as they … risk preferences and entrepreneurship reported in previous studies. …

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Number of Self-Employed or Number of Firms as Measures of Entrepreneurship : Does it Matter?

Salas-Fumás, Vicente; Sanchez-Asin, J. Javier - 2009

This paper compares the information content of the number of persons self-employed with the number of active firms, as measures of the entrepreneurial resources of an economy. Our purpose is to examine whether the two variables respond equally to the same potential sources of variability...

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Entrepreneurship and Public Policy

Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2011

Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high …-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying contexts and economic systems make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of …

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Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data : An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia - 2013

Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More information including estimates of recent...

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Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data : An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2010

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Skill-Biased Entrepreneurial Decline

Jiang, Helu - 2019

The U.S. is undergoing a long-term decline in entrepreneurship. We show that this slow-down in entrepreneurship has … skilled individuals, discouraging the pursuit of entrepreneurship relative to wage employment. We also present novel evidence … for polarization in entrepreneurship: occupations which experienced the largest wage increases, also experienced the …

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Social Insurance and Entrepreneurship : The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on New-Business Formation

Xu, Wenjian - 2020

This paper studies the impacts of social insurance on the decision of an unemployed individual to start a business. I find that higher unemployment insurance (UI) benefits both lower the probability that an unemployed person will become self-employed and extend the duration before they make such...

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Entrepreneurial Wages

Babina, Tania - 2018

Why do young firms pay less? Previous studies have argued that employees willingly accept lower wages at new firms in response to offsetting benefits. A second literature argues that lower wages at new firms are driven by the selection of lower quality workers into new firms, firms which are...

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Self-Employment through Beauty Parlor Business : Vindication from Women Entrepreneurs of Agartala

Deb, Rajat - 2016

The study attempts to report the motivating factors of women entrepreneurs of Agartala to become self-employed through beauty parlor business and to assess their strategies for sustainability in a competitive environment. Using cross-sectional research design, a survey through interview-Schedule...

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Entrepreneurship and Job Creation

Astebro, Thomas B. - 2016

Using a dataset with over 24 million observations and more than 230,000 entries into entrepreneurship we analyze the …

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