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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014
employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438895
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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees : conference paper
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2013
We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344606
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Foreign direct investment and domestic entrepreneurship : blessing or curse?
Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Estrin, Saul; Reynolds, Paul … - 2013
between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra‐industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224595
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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture : Germany 1925-2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2011
-specific determinants of entrepreneurship also remain relatively constant over time. Another explanation could be the existence of a … regional entrepreneurship culture. Such an entrepreneurial culture could maybe even outwear considerable 'jumps' in the … regional entrepreneurship in three different scenarios with different degrees of changes of the economic conditions. The basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522629
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Businessmen's expectations are neither rational nor adaptive
Nerlove, Marc L.; Schuermann, Til - 1997
A framework which allows for the joint testing of the adaptive and rational expectations hypotheses is presented. We assume joint normality of expectations, realizations and variables in the information set, allowing for parsimonious interpretation of the data; conditional first moments are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011620075
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Do regions with entrepreneurial neighbors perform better? : a spatial econometric approach for German regions
Pijnenburg, Katharina; Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič - 2010 - This version: February 7, 2010
We use a neoclassical production function to analyze the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on … spillover effects via entrepreneurship within a certain region. Between regions, entrepreneurship as a vehicle by which … evidence for regionally bounded knowledge spillover effects via entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555808
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Entrepreneurial success and subjective well-being : worries about the business explain one's well-being loss from self-employment
Binder, Martin - 2017
, focussing specifically on poor performance enterprises, a prevalent but disregarded type of entrepreneurship. Using German panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782009
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Historical roots of entrepreneurial culture and innovation activity : an analysis for German regions
Fritsch, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018
culture of entrepreneurship is positively related not only to the level of new business formation but also the amount of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872288
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Do entrepreneurs really earn less? : conference paper
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014
We compare, based on German data, the income of self-employed individuals with and without employees with the income of dependently employed individuals. Our results show that self-employed with employees tend to earn significantly higher incomes than their salaried counterparts, while with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485982
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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014
employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438045