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This paper shows that taxes which are understood to be neutral with respect to the marginal investment decisions may be distortionary with respect to entrepreneurial decisions. In particular, we apply an intertemporal model to show that a comprehensive income tax is distortionary unless all...
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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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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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Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high...
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spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …
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We review and evaluate some recent contributions on the modeling of entrepreneurship within a neoclassical framework … describe it. However, each modeling attempt focuses only on one specific feature of entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurial … highlight how a simplistic interpretation of the existing mainstream approaches incorporating entrepreneurship runs the risk of …
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Entrepreneurship is historically associated with risk bearing. Consequently, risk attitude is widely believed to affect … supposedly negative effect of risk-aversion on entrepreneurship selection. However, we feel not sufficiently confident about our …
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Entrepreneurship is historically associated with risk bearing. Consequently, risk attitude is widely believed to affect … supposedly negative effect of risk-aversion on entrepreneurship selection. However, we feel not sufficiently confident about our …
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determinants of business ownership in America. -- entrepreneurship ; occupational choice ; family ; business ownership …
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This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …
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