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'I Want to, But I Also Need to' - Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...

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Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Choice and Risk Aversion : A Decomposition Based on a Microeconometric Model

Fossen, Frank M. - 2009

Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? Women have both to a lower entry rate into self-employment and a higher exit rate in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which includes a standard risk aversion parameter. As inputs...

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"I Want to, But I Also Need to" : Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

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Who becomes an entrepreneur? : labor market prospects and occupational choice

Poschke, Markus (contributor) - 2008

start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … persist in the market, and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage … entrepreneurship where agents are heterogeneous in their ability as workers, and starting entrepreneurs face uncertainty about their …