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Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the …

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Taking a second chance : entrepreneurial restarters in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

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Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs

Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self …

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The impact of risk aversion, role models, and the regional milieu on the transition from unemployment to self-employment : empirical evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

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Testing Lazear's jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship with German micro data

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

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Personal and regional determinants of entrepreneurial activities : empirical evidence from the REM Germany

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Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship?: the impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin - 2007

The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test … requirements are detrimental to entrepreneurship. Second, we test whether corruption reduces the negative impact of regulations on … entrepreneurship in highly regulated economies. Our empirical analysis for a maximum of 43 countries over the period 2003-2005 shows …

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When Arm's Length Is Too Far. Relationship Banking over the Business Cycle

Beck, Thorsten; Degryse, Hans; de Haas, Ralph; van … - 2014

Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks' lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms' credit constraints at two...

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Consumption risk sharing over the business cycle: the role of small firms' access to credit markets

Hoffmann, Mathias; Shcherbakova, Iryna - 2009

Consumption risk sharing among U.S. federal states increases in booms and decreases in recessions. We find that small firms' access to credit markets plays an important role in explaining this stylized fact: business cycle fluctuations in aggregate risk sharing are more pronounced in states in...

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Social capital and the uncertainty reduction of self-employment

Blumberg, Boris F.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001

skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from …

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