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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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consequence, more necessity entrepreneurship and worse startup outcomes in terms of sales and employment growth. We explain this …
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Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...
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Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an effective policy tool to improve long-term employment and income prospects of participants, in particular compared to other active labor market programs (e.g. training, job search...
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The COVID-19 pandemic severely affected not only incumbent firms, but also the emergence of start-ups. This paper investigates and analyzes the pandemic's effect on new business formation, as well as business exits and insolvencies, in Germany. We find that the overall level of business...
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In this paper, we describe the historical co-evolution of innovation and economic growth in Germany since 1871. The country's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century, through its innovation and entrepreneurial performance, is contrasted with the post-World War II period. This latter...
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entrepreneurship driven by opportunity (directly or indirectly by perceived capacities) is a key factor in stimulating the European … that analyses the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth, but using a sample of countries in Europe (there are few … the global entrepreneurship monitor (GEM) to assess their impact of entrepreneurship on countries’ economic growth. …
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2006-2020, to capture the relationship between new business density rate, as a proxy for entrepreneurship, and individuals … entrepreneurship is influenced by the skills, knowledge, and experience of the entrepreneurs, including their education, training, and … entrepreneurship was visible in emerging countries, while the lowest was for countries classified as moderate innovators. The research …
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an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship … the most fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we … address are immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups, and group …
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Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...
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