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The impact of firm entry regulation on long-living entrants
Prantl, Susanne - 2010
What is the impact of firm entry regulation on sustained entry into self-employment? How does firm entry regulation influence the performance of long-living entrants? In this paper, I address these questions by exploiting a natural experiment in firm entry regulation. After German reunification,...
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Trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity : do these traits impact entrepreneurial dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2010
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...
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Self-employment as proxy for entrepreneurship : empirical caveats
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - 2010
Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self-employment, making it a somewhat dubious proxy....
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How long does it take to become an entrepreneurial society : the case of german convergence in self-employment
Schindele, Yvonne - 2010
data from 1992 to 2005 on 97 German regions to analyze recent convergence in self-employment rates. An astonishing catching …-up process is observed for East German regions during the period under study. However, the general convergence between East and … regions have achieved convergence with West German self-employment rates and some have not. -- Entrepreneurship ; regional …
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Entrepreneurship : origins and returns
Berglann, Helge; Moen, Espen R.; Røed, Knut; … - 2009
We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited...
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How do local labor market conditions and individual characteristics affect quitting selfemployment?
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2010 - This version: 15.01.2010
This paper investigates the joint effect of local labor market conditions and individual differences on the duration of self-employment periods. Using register based, data the study focuses on previously unemployed business founders who have received public support to realize their...
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Trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity : do these traits impact entrepreneurial dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2010
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312883
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Creative unemployment
Røed, Knut; Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - 2010
We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use of mass layoffs caused by bankruptcies as indicators of exogenous displacement. We find that working in a company which is going to close down due to bankruptcy during the next...
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Family-related employment interruptions and self-employment of women : does policy matter?
Suprinovič, Olga; Schneck, Stefan; Kay, Rosemarie - 2015
This paper analyzes how statutory entitlements to maternity or parental leave affect female entry into self-employment after childbirth. For our estimations we use comprehensive panel data for German adults born between 1944 and 1989. We find that utilization of statutory parental leave...
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Verdienen Selbständige tatsächlich weniger als Angestellte?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 82 (2015) 7, pp. 134-141
Mithilfe der Daten des Mikrozensus untersucht dieser Bericht die Einkünfte von Selbständigen und unterscheidet dabei zwischen Solo-Selbständigen und Selbständigen mit weiteren Beschäftigten. Danach lohnt sich der Schritt in die Selbständigkeit finanziell für viele, denn auch...
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