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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …
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that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual’s decision to start a business is determined by his...
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A novel method is applied to evaluate the effect of capital constraints on entrepreneurial performance on a panel of 1,000 Dutch entrepreneurs. We find that initial capital constraints hinder entrepreneurs in their performance, even when we control for various human capital and other factors...
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The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...
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level and quality of entrepreneurship and the level of effort by entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. We also provide …
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entrepreneurship. Here, we investigate analytically and quantitatively the trade-off between transaction costs saved and creative …
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shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and … labor risk is found to be statistically significant and detrimental to entrepreneurship. The crowding-out effect of public … production of private goods on entrepreneurship dominates the crowding-in effect of public production of public goods in the OECD …
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We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual’s socialization. This could be...
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