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“Entrepreneurs out of Necessity”: A Snapshot

Poschke, Markus - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

“Entrepreneurs out of necessity” identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey area sizeable group across …

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Informal Workers Across Europe:Evidence from 30 Countries

Hazans, Mihails - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main jobin 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However,dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West,except for Ireland, the UK and...

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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship:The Role of Extreme Events

Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extremeevents – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions ofentrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure instarting a business...

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A Practical Method to Estimate Entrepreneurship's Reward

Georgiou, Miltiades N. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2005

to estimate entrepreneurship´s reward. As an example, a regression, based on the estimation of entrepreneurship´s reward …

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The Impact of Geographic Differences in Human Capital on Service Firm Formation Rates

Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

Although human capital externalities are a key variable in theories of economic growth, there has been little investigation of the mechanism by which these externalities are realized. We examine the relationship between the local levels of human capital and firm formation rates and find that...

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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality:New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

Economic Psychology on “Personality and Entrepreneurship”.The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … entrepreneurship research.... …

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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions,and the Great Recession

Fairlie, Robert - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

opportunities in the wage/salary sectorleaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdataavailable … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed lighton this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a majordeterminant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase theprobability that …

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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs toCreate Larger Firms?

Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types ofentrepreneurship across …. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in55 countries for 2001-2006, applying a …

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Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth andEntrepreneurship: Theory and Evidencefrom the Introduction of a “Fresh Start”

Fossen, Frank M. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

, lenders may charge higherinterest rates or ration credit supply, which can hamper entrepreneurship. Both aspects of amore … entrepreneurship.... …

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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity:Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in bothpositively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variablesof social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurswho are permanently...

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