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Entrepreneurial Entry Exit and Re-Entry: The Extent and Nature of Opportunity Identification
Ucbasaran, Deniz; Westhead, Paul; Wright, Mike - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
This study utilizes a human capital framework to explore whether business ownership experience is associated with the number of business opportunities identified, the number of identified opportunities that are pursued, and the nature of those opportunities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864964
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Renascent Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurial Preferences Subsequent to Firm Exit
Stam, Erik; Audretsch, David; Meijaard, Joris - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
Why should individuals that have exited their firm consider re-entering into entrepreneurship, i.e. become renascent … entrepreneurs? According to the logic of economic models of firm dynamics there is no reason to re-enter into entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864967
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The Lag Structure of the Impact of Business Ownership on Economic Performance in OECD Countries
Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
This paper investigates the impact of changes in the number of business owners on three measures of economic performance, viz. employment growth, GDP growth and labor productivity growth. Particular attention is devoted to the lag structure...
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Reluctant Entrepreneurs : Evidence from China's SOE Reform
Fang, Hanming; Li, Ming; Wu, Zenan; Zhang, Yapei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the quality of entrepreneurship in China. Using long series of … high-skilled SOE employees were reluctantly unleashed into entrepreneurship. We also provide corroborating evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372457
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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Evidence on Inheritance and Capital Constraints
Blanchflower, David - 1990
The paper studies the factors which shape entrepreneurship among young adults. It finds, using data on a British birth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475785
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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Does Mandating Social Insurance Affect Entrepreneurial Activity?
Benzarti, Youssef - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of relaxing the social insurance mandate on entrepreneurial activity. We use a unique discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich administrative data, we find that relaxing the...
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The Causal Link between Relative Age Effect and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from 17 Million Users across 49 Years on Taobao
Wang, Youwei - 2018
We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Using events surrounding the Cultural Revolution and the issuance of the Compulsory Education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480969
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Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Levine, Ross - 2018
We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481000
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Amateurs Crowds & Professional Entrepreneurs as Platform Complementors
Boudreau, Kevin J. - 2018
Platforms often have "crowds" of amateurs working on them as complementors, in other cases professional entrepreneurs--or both. What can a platform owner do to implement these outcomes? I document evidence on mobile app developers showing that just small, incremental changes in platform...
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