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This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition; self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the...
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We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …
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-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …
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Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...
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start with the relation between development and rural-urban migration. Moving beyond the coarse rural-urban distinction, we … with development. As we discuss, these spatial dynamics often mask important differences across sectors. We then turn our … development, we draw on empirical evidence from both the historical evolution of today's developed economies and comparisons …
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entrepreneurship as a mechanism that reduces the knowledge filter. A cross-country regression analysis over the period 1981 … entrepreneurship may be an important new approach to promoting economic growth. …
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capital-backed entrepreneurship. We also argue that dividend and capital gains taxes on mature firms have important …
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Using a dataset of the firms listed on the Neuer Markt in Germany, this Paper demonstrates that venture backed firms differ from firms with other financial resources, especially debt. Thus, the results of this study provide evidence for the hypothesis that small and innovative firms are more...
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We study the implications of ownership and its induced incentives on firm performance in the ‘New Economy’. Instead of traditional performance we use firm survival on the stock market as the performance indicator. Using a unique data set of all 341 firms listed on the Neuer Markt, the German...
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made a plea for guidance in the era of entrepreneurship, scholars have been slow to respond. The purpose of this paper is … introduced a greater element of entrepreneurship have been rewarded with additional growth. …
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