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Do balanced skills help nascent entrepreneurs to make progress in the venture creation process?

Stuetzer, Michael; Goethner, Maximilian; Cantner, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We analyze longitudinal data on innovative start-up projects and apply Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to investigate the effect of nascent entrepreneurs’ balanced skills on their progress in the venture creation process. Our results suggest that those nascent entrepreneurs who exhibit a...

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Where do entrepreneurial skills come from?

Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Davidsson, Per; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Applying Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory we investigate the formation of entrepreneurial skills in two datasets on innovative new firms. Our results suggest that traditional human capital indicators individually have little or no influence on entrepreneurial skills. However, consistent with...

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Balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs

Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper examines the effects and origins of balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs. In a first step we apply Lazear’s jack-of-all-trades theory to investigate performance effects of a balanced skill set. Second, we investigate potential sources of balanced skills, thereby testing the...

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Agrarian distress and rural non-farm sector employment in India

Abraham, Vinoj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

watchers that there is at last a visible structural shift in employment. Yet, it needs to be recognized that this shift has …

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Regional characteristics, opportunity perception and entrepreneurial activities

Stuetzer, Michael; Obschonka, Martin; Brixy, Udo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper seeks to better understand the link between regional characteristics and individual entrepreneurship. We combine individual-level GEM data for Western Germany with regional-level data, using multi-level analysis to test our hypotheses. We find no direct link between regional knowledge...

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Nascent entrepreneurship and the developing individual: Early entrepreneurial competence in adolescence and venture creation success during the career

Obschonka, Martin; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

What predicts a person's venture creation success over the course of the career, such as making progress in the venture creation process and multiple successful venture creations? Applying a life span approach of human development, this study examined the effect of early entrepreneurial...

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Global financial crisis and return of South Asian Gulf migrants: patterns and determinants of their integration to local labour markets

Abraham, Vinoj; Rajan, Irudaya S - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

countries, namely; Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, concludes that on return, the employment status of REMs … were in general worse off than in their host country with high share of casualisation, self employment and unemployment in … the crisis year and a decline in their average monthly earnings. The analysis suggests that those who found employment on …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Labour: The Case of Indian Manufacturing

Pradhan, Jaya Prakash; Abraham, Vinoj; Sahoo, Manoj Kumar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This paper makes an attempt to evaluate the employment and wage effects of FDI in Indian manufacturing. The findings … suggest that foreign firms do not have any adverse effects on the manufacturing employment in India as compared to their …

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