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What makes a young entrepreneur?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 1990
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Not-for-profit entrepreneurs
Glaeser, Edward L.; Shleifer, Andrei - 1998
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Diasporas and Exports
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2018
In this paper we highlight a new complementary channel to the business and social network effect à la Rauch (2001) through which immigrants generate increased export flows from the regions in which they settle to their countries of origin: they can become entrepreneurs. Using very small-scale...
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Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo - 2020
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
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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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Start-Up Capital and Women's Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Swaziland
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2016
This paper examines gender differences in entrepreneurial performance and their links with start-up capital utilizing a search model and empirical analysis of survey of entrepreneurs from Swaziland. The results show that entrepreneurs of both genders with higher start-up capital record better...
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Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa : Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity
Nagler, Paula - 2014
understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …
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Entrepreneurial Choices of Initial Human Capital Endowments and New Venture Success
Rocha, Vera - 2016
The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founder's choice of the initial...
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Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood
Viinikainen, Jutta - 2016
also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship …
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Becoming an Entrepreneur
Ñopo, Hugo - 2007
employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch …
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