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The effect of regional entrepreneurship culture on economic development : evidence for Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2014

We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this … measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship … a regional culture of entrepreneurship is an important resource for regional growth. …

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Entrepreneurial tendencies of migrants working in the care sector in Poland

Maj, Jolanta; Kubiciel-Lodzińska, Sabina - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 8 (2020) 3, pp. 27-46

entrepreneurship. Contribution & Value Added: The article contributes to the research on migrant entrepreneurship by analysing …

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Supply of immigrant entrepreneurs and native entrepreneurship

Ghimire, Keshar M. - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-42

entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial propensities of natives. The author draws data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of … entrepreneurs on native entrepreneurship. Moreover, there is no net effect on subgroups of natives separated by skill level. There …

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Does education enhance entrepreneurship?

Ahn, Kunwon; Winters, John V. - 2021

. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years … education for men. The results suggest that formal education enhances entrepreneurship. …

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Return migration and entrepreneurship in Cameroon

Tamwo, Sévérin; Gandjon Fankem, Ghislain Stéphane; … - 2022

In this paper, we examine the determinants of the entrepreneurial behaviour of returnees to Cameroon based on original survey data from 2012. Contrary to the existing literature, we focus on the skills received from abroad without omitting the effect of savings. We distinguish between three...

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Too cold to venture there? : January temperature and immigrant self-employment across the United States

Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2021

Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However, we document that immigrant self-employment...

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Do women have a less entrepreneurial personality?

Bengtsson, Ola; Sanandaji, Tino; Johannesson, Magnus - 2012

A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …-entrepreneurial self-employed. This finding highlights that entrepreneurship is distinct from other types of self …

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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...

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Opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship : two components of business creation

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - 2018

A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter …-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship, there are many challenges to creating a definition that is both objective and empirically feasible. We propose an …

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Are risk attitudes and individualism predictors of entrepreneurship in Romania? : a multivariate analysis of Romanian data

Hatos, Adrian; Hatos, Roxana; Bădulescu, Alina; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 17 (2015) 38, pp. 148-161

entrepreneurship. More specific, it focuses on elaborating and empirically testing hypotheses related to structural push and pull … analysis confirm the importance of risk aversion for entrepreneurship, as expected, but reject the hypothesis of a significant …

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