What makes a Die-Hard Entrepreneur? Trying, or Persisting in, Sel-Employment

The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment. We outline an econometric methodology to account for this approach and find that it is superior to probit/logit models which have dominated the literature...

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Year of publication:	2005-06-01
Authors:	Burke, Andrew E. ; FitzRoy, Felix R. ; Nolan, Michael A.
Institutions:	Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena>
Subject:	Entrepreneurship \| Selbständige Arbeit \| Persistenz \| changing persistence

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Extent:	1044.48 bytes 38 p. application/pdf
Series:	Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik - Abteilung Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Discussion Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy ; 2305
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	C25 - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models ; J23 - Employment Determination; Job Creation; Demand for Labor; Self-Employment ; Ergonomic job analysis ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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