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Avoiding the housewife stigma : self-employment as a female career choice

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2018

This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top of the income distribution are more likely to enter self-employment, which is also associated with a lower income. This can be interpreted as a career choice that produces a...

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Well-being effects of self-employment : a spatial inquiry

Abreu, Maria; Öner, Özge; Brouwer, Aleid; Leeuwen, … - 2018

Our paper presents an empirical analysis of entrepreneurial well-being using a large-scale longitudinal household survey from the UK that tracks almost 50,000 individuals across seven waves over the period 2009-2017, as well as a number of exploratory case studies. We contribute to the existing...

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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture : Germany 1925-2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2011

-specific determinants of entrepreneurship also remain relatively constant over time. Another explanation could be the existence of a … regional entrepreneurship culture. Such an entrepreneurial culture could maybe even outwear considerable 'jumps' in the … regional entrepreneurship in three different scenarios with different degrees of changes of the economic conditions. The basic …

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Entrepreneurial success and subjective well-being : worries about the business explain one's well-being loss from self-employment

Binder, Martin - 2017

, focussing specifically on poor performance enterprises, a prevalent but disregarded type of entrepreneurship. Using German panel …

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Historical roots of entrepreneurial culture and innovation activity : an analysis for German regions

Fritsch, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018

culture of entrepreneurship is positively related not only to the level of new business formation but also the amount of …

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The effect of entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial intention among master students : prior self-employment experience as a moderator

Le Trung Thanh; Thanh Hieu Nguyen; Son Tung Ha; Ngyuen … - In: Central European Management Journal 31 (2023) 1, pp. 30-47

Purpose This article aims to draw a conceptual model that integrates the view from the entrepreneurial event model with entrepreneurial education and prior self-employment experience. The model tests the role of entrepreneurial education on the formation of intentions to become an entrepreneur...

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The Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve

Gries, Thomas - 2016

, following labor market matching models. Setting out an endogenous growth model with entrepreneurship we derive a … Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve, through which we illustrate that entrepreneurial start-ups are the outcome of the efficiency with … which entrepreneurial abilities are matched with business opportunities. The Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve is a …

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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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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous? A Bayesian Analysis

Block, Jorn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, Roy - 2014

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instru-mental...

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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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