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Risk preference and entrepreneurial investment at the top of the wealth distribution

Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2021

We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using novel survey data from the top of the wealth distribution, which have been added to the 2019 German Socio-economic Panel Study. The data include private wealth balance sheets,...

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Risk preference and entrepreneurial investment at the top of the wealth distribution

Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2020

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Entrepreneurship over the business cycle in the United States: a decomposition

Fossen, Frank M. - 2019

entry strongly applies to unincorporated entrepreneurship, but only weakly to incorporated entrepreneurship. This highlights … the association of unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship with necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship …

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2D:4D and self-employment using SOEP data : a replication study

Fossen, Frank M.; Neyse, Levent; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2020

The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...

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Microentrepreneurs' gender difference in labor demand

Oladipo, Oluwasheyi; Shim, Hyoung Suk - 2022

This paper empirically examines firm owners' gender difference in labor demand. We estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) of female ownership on employment of the firm using the 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS), provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Because...

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State-based conflict and entrepreneurship : empirical evidence

Naudé, Wim; Amorós, Ernesto; Brück, Tilman - 2023

This paper investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. From a survey of the … opportunity-motivated forms of entrepreneurship, and (2) a positive association with unproductive and necessity-motivated forms of … entrepreneurship. We test these hypotheses by drawing on several state-based conflict and entrepreneurship measures, using appropriate …

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Taxation and Entrepreneurship in a Welfare State

Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

Does tax policy affect the rate of self-employment in a modern welfare state? This question is analyzed empirically based on Swedish data for the entire post-war period. Available tax data indicate that payroll taxes have had a negative influence on the unincorporated rate of self-employment,...

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Entrepreneurs and their impact on jobs and economic growth : productive entrepreneurs can invigorate the economy by creating jobs and new technologies, and increasing productivity

Kritikos, Alexander - 2014

competitiveness of the economy and may establish new jobs. The gains of entrepreneurship are only realized, however, if the business …

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The growth and human capital atructure of new firms over the business cycle

Brixy, Udo; Murmann, Martin - 2016

employment in incumbent firms. This questions the effectiveness of policies that promote entrepreneurship to fight crises. We …

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Large scope business sector reforms : has the Swedish business sector become more entrepreneurial than the U.S. business sector?

Andersson, Fredrik; Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2016

Recent studies document a 30-year decline in various measures of entrepreneurship in the United States. In contrast … mitigated several hurdles to entrepreneurship. …

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