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What drives women out of entrepreneurship? The joint role of testosterone and culture

Guiso, Luigi; Rustichini, Aldo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

entrepreneurship so that only women with well above average entrepreneurial skills find it attractive to self-select into … entrepreneurship. This finding can rationalize three facts: a) fewer women than men are entrepreneurs; b) the proportion of women among … entrepreneurs tends to be higher in countries with higher women emancipation; c) women who break the barrier into entrepreneurship …

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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay? Native Men, Turks and Other Migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

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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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

-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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Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants vs Natives

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

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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Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns

Berglann, Helge; Moen, Espen R; Roed, Knut; Skogstrøm, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

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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Understanding the size and profitability of firms: The role of a biological factor

Guiso, Luigi; Rustichini, Aldo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We collect information on prenatal testosterone in a large sample of entrepreneurs by measuring the length of their 2th … to 4th fingers in face to face interviews. Entrepreneurs with higher exposure to prenatal testosterone (lower second to … growth over the years they manage the firm. We also find that pre-natal testosterone is correlated with elicited measures of …

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Self-Employment and Windfall Gains in Britain: Evidence From Panel Data

Taylor, Mark P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Liquidity constraints can affect self-employment in a number of ways. They can prohibit potential entrepreneurs from starting up in business, they can restrict the growth of existing entrepreneurial activities and, in the extreme, they can result in small business failure. This paper uses...

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Why Does the Self-Employment Rate Vary Across Countries and Over Time?

Acs, Zoltán J; Audretsch, David B; Evans, David S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

There is a tremendous diversity in the level and time-series pattern of the self-employment rate across countries. After documenting this fact with cross-section and time-series data on industrialized and lesser-developed countries, this paper presents and tests a series of hypotheses concerning...

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Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?

Audretsch, David B; Carree, Martin A; Thurik, A R Roy; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the 'refugee' effect). On the other hand, higher rates of self employment may indicate increased...

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Self-Employment and Labour Market Transitions: A Multiple State Model

Martinez-Granado, Maite - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We use the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to estimate a multiple state transition model with three possible labour market states: self-employment, employment, and unemployment. This enables us to assess the effects of changes in demographic characteristics and economic conditions on the...

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