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A review of recent evidence on relative earnings from entrepreneurship versus wage work presents a puzzle: why do … individuals become entrepreneurs when entrepreneurs on average apparently earn less than employees? After considering several … potential explanations, we empirically analyze one: income underreporting by entrepreneurs. Using a nationwide panel survey …
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relationship between education language choice and entrepreneurship in Chad. By education language choice, we mean the choice … Chadian government and their partners to help to design appropriate policies to foster youth entrepreneurship in Chad …
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A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training …
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high- as opposed to low-barrier fields. The wealth and educational background characteristics potential entrepreneurs …
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during education – relates to subsequent transitions into entrepreneurship. While prior research has focused on mismatch due … opportunity costs of entering entrepreneurship. Moreover, mismatch may also affect human capital development, including the … formation of a broader range of skills that is beneficial in entrepreneurship. Using longitudinal data from over 25 …
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relationship between capital — human, social, and financial — and opportunity-motivated entrepreneurship (OME). To do this, we … the macro-level. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), we then test the predictions of our model and … and financial capital become less important determinants of entrepreneurship while the relationship between social capital …
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This paper uses the 2004 amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code as a natural experiment for assessing the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and of transition into and out of self-employment. This is achieved by using repeated cross-sections...
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(VC), and after VC exit. Prior to obtaining VC, entrepreneurs may have started other ventures, worked as a salaried …, start another firm (‘serial entrepreneur'), or become a business angel that invests in other entrepreneurs. Our detailed … data resting on the CrunchBase online database indicate that VC exit systematically spawns serial entrepreneurs only in …
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entrepreneurship research analyses the employment effects of start-ups vs. incumbent firms, our knowledge about differences in these …
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that these “entrepreneurial diffusers”, by potentially passing on entrepreneurial knowledge and institutional wisdom, can … entrepreneurship, which is critical to the sustainability of a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem …
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