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The perceived well-being and health costs of exiting self-employment

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N.; Popova, Olga - 2020

this traumatic event. Our findings imply that policies encouraging entrepreneurship should also carefully consider the …

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The perceived well-being and health costs of exiting self-employment

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris; Popova, Olga - 2020

this traumatic event. Our findings imply that policies encouraging entrepreneurship should also carefully consider the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208783

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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Testing the differential impact of COVID-19 on self-employed women and men in the United Kingdom

Reuschke, Darja; Henley, Andrew; Daniel, Elizabeth; … - 2021

This paper investigates whether the female self-employed are more affected by the COVID-19 crisis than the male self-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family/social, economic and psychological factors on...

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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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Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid; … - 2022

Previous estimates indicate that COVID-19 led to a large drop in the number of operating businesses operating early in the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned into permanent closures and whether small businesses were disproportionately hit. This paper...

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Income taxation and hours worked in different types of entrepreneurship

Can, Ege; Fossen, Frank M. - 2023

We investigate the effect of personal income tax (PIT) rates on the number of hours entrepreneurs work weekly. Using the rotating panel data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey from 2003 to 2019, we estimate instrumental variable regressions in first...

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Unemployment benefit duration and startup success

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Murmann, Martin - 2024

consequence, more necessity entrepreneurship and worse startup outcomes in terms of sales and employment growth. We explain this …

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Self-employment, knowledge and economic growth : an empirical study for Latin American countries

González Sánchez, Víctor M. - In: Contemporary economics 12 (2018) 4, pp. 473-484

entrepreneurship is one of the elements that could positively contribute to this growth. Among other factors, both entrepreneurship and … relationship between economic growth, knowledge and entrepreneurship within the context of Latin American countries during the … period 2001-2016. For this purpose, the self-employment variable has been used as an empirical proxy of entrepreneurship. In …

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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis

Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010

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 instrumental...

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