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A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … saving and correlated abilities. Third, we provide new evidence from matched Current Population Survey (1993-2004) data to …
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contributions to tax-favoured pension savings accounts on a population of self-employed individuals. I exploit a unique total data …
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taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western … identify the mix of behavioral features driving our choice data. We find that these features distort choices when exchanging …
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self-employment and paid-employment. Using Spanish administrative data, we characterize the distribution and dynamics of …
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business stealing effect. Commercialization support induces entrepreneurship but may lead to mediocre entrepreneurship by … inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the … type of entrepreneurship. We develop a regression framework to test empirical predictions of the model. Within our …
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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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predictions of the model are tested in cross-section OECD data on 19 economies over 1978-98. Support is found for the view that …
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labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated … numerically. The main result is that an increase in union power reduces the equilibrium rate of entrepreneurship and reduces the …
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Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption by studying whether female managers and female owners of firms perceived corruption differently; (b) using survey information at the firm level; and (c) employing a large sample...
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