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through these stages. Data are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European …
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Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … be expected and respect. Furthermore, our results imply that entrepreneurship is associated with hard work, high incomes …
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We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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contradicts existing theoretical hypotheses which predict that entrepreneurship is pro-cyclical or not cyclical. We discuss …
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models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …
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We model the emergence of organization forms in a game between prospective entrepreneurs. Complementary roles arise endogenously in a way that admits a stable assignment of workers to firms. This contrasts with existing work on job matching, where stability typically requires workers to be...
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We develop a new perspective on the boundary of the firm that is consistent with the empirical observation that the share of entrepreneurs first decreases and then increases in the course of economic development. Existing theory based on transaction costs is difficult to relate to these...
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spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …
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>entrepreneurial economy</I>. In particular, the empirical evidence provides consistent support that (1) the role of entrepreneurship has … may be that the current approach to entrepreneurship policy is misguided. The priority should not be on entrepreneurship …
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This paper revisits the two-equation model of Carree, van Stel, Thurik and Wennekers (2002) where deviations from the ‘equilibrium’ rate of business ownership play a central role determining both the growth of business ownership and that of economic development. Two extensions of the...
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