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taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship … studies on entrepreneurship do not offer a neat picture of the actual contribution of education to entrepreneurial human … depth analysis of the determinants of entrepreneurship in Italy, thus accounting for the role that variables like the …
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The study discusses myths of entrepreneurship by looking at the overlapping areas of entrepreneurship, self … journalists, translators, interpreters and artists at the blurred boundaries between waged work and entrepreneurship. Findings … reveal that the professions are clearly different and the manifestations of entrepreneurship vary, reflecting the work and …
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Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...
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The paper contributes to the interpretation of entrepreneurship based on the effect of knowledge and the cultural … background. Entrepreneurship is defined as both the self-employment and the entry density rates, comparing the two models. The … a regression analysis. The results confirm that cultural background strongly affects both entrepreneurship rates …
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and incomes, the enormous heterogeneity of the category of entrepreneurship becomes evident. The span reaches from best …
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It is not clear, whether changes in self-employment are primarily driven by the necessity to take part in the labour market, or if those activities reflect new modes of labour market integration revealing new opportunities and markets, which are especially due in wide parts to the service and...
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The notion of risk and entrepreneurship has been widely discussed in the entrepreneurship literature. Starting a … about risk attitudes of entrepreneurs and to the literature about necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship. …
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We examine the spatio-temporal dynamics of self-employment in India using geoadditive models and pseudo panel techniques. We test the claim of Iyigun and Owen (1999) that individuals invest in professional human capital and not in entrepreneurial human capital as an economy develops. The results...
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die Entrepreneurship-Forschung sowie für die Entrepreneurship-Praxis werden diskutiert. Herausforderungen aus Sicht der …-AG” or “me-plc” in January 2003, this share has increased strongly. Entrepreneurship research so far has said very little … perspective of entrepreneurship research as well as from a perspective of governmental start-up policy. …
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In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...
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