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Oil & Gas Induced Economic Fluctuations and Self-Employment

Unel, Bulent; Upton, Gregory - 2021

We investigate effects of plausibly exogenous variation in the value of oil and natural gas production in local economies on self-employment in the United States. We find that self-employment is procyclical, i.e. self-employment increases during a business cycle expansion and is reduced during a...

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Effects of entrepreneurship education at universities

Slavtchev, Viktor; Laspita, Stavroula; Patzelt, Holger - 2012

This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the short-term (immediately after graduation) and in the long-term (five years after graduation). A difference-in-differences approach is applied...

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TV and entrepreneurship

Slavtchev, Viktor; Wyrwich, Michael - 2017

Germany, West TV was exogenously available only in some regions of the latter. Using regional and individual data, we show … that, after the Reunification, entrepreneurship is higher among the residents of East German regions with West TV signal …

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TV and entrepreneurship

Slavtchev, Viktor; Wyrwich, Michael - 2021

entrepreneurship incidence is higher among the residents of regions that had TV signal than in regions without TV, indicating a first … between treated and non-treated population groups or regions. …

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TV and entrepreneurship

Slavtchev, Viktor; Wyrwich, Michael - 2017

free-market economy and the socialistic East Germany with centrally-planned economy, some East German regions had access to … that there were hardly any differences in the levels and development of entrepreneurship between East German regions with … higher among the residents of East German regions that had access to West German public TV, indicating that TV can, while …

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Determinanten des Erfolgs staatlich geförderter Existenzgründungen : eine empirische Untersuchung

Sandner, Philipp; Block, Jörn; Lutz, Andreas - 2007

Ein Großteil der Neugründungen in Deutschland ist auf staatliche Förderung von Existenzgründern zurückzuführen. Dieser Anteil hat sich nach Einführung des als "Ich-AG" bekannten Existenzgründungszuschusses Anfang 2003 stark erhöht. Die Erfolgsfaktorenforschung hat diese Form von...

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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Is It U-Shaped?

Wennekers, Sander; van Stel, André; Carree, Martin; … - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship 6 (2010) 3, pp. 167-237

Following a centuries-long decline in the rate of self-employment, a discontinuity in this downward trend is observed for many advanced economies starting in the 1970s and 1980s. In some countries, the rate of self-employment appears to increase. At the same time, crosssectional analysis shows a...

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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Drivers of entrepreneurial entry are investigated in this study by examining how entry into small-business ownership is shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering firms in various industries are shown to differ...

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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and Do Family Background Variables Make Sense as Instruments?: A Bayesian Analysis

Block, Jörn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, A. Roy - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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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Entrepreneurship and role models

Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - 2010

inhabitants are taken into account, some regions have persistently higher entrepreneurship rates than others. Proposed …; Sternberg 2009; Malecki 2009). It can be argued that in regions with high rates of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial role models … over 300 owner-managers of young firms across four different sectors for three regions in the Netherlands. For each of the …

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