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Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies

Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

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Employment determination in enterprises under communism and in transition : evidence from Central Europe

Basu, Swati (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to estimate dynamic employment equations for the period immediately before and after the start of … completely unresponsive mode characteristic of central planning, but rapidly caught up with their counterparts in Hungary and … Poland. …

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Wage determination under communism and in transition : evidence from Central Europe

Basu, Swati (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe : an east-west comparison

Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008

Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a unique harmonised, linked employer-employee data set, the 2002 European … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship …

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Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential effect on the wages of individual workers and can lead...

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Entrepreneurship among married couples in the United States : a simultaneous probit approach

Parker, Simon C. (contributor) - 2005

This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...

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Divergent thinking and post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes : non-linearities and the moderating role of experience

Caliendo, Marco; Rodríguez, Daniel - 2023

Divergent thinking is the ability to produce numerous and diverse responses to questions or tasks, and it is used as a predictor of creative achievement. It plays a significant role in the business organization's innovation process and the recognition of new business opportunities. Drawing upon...

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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...

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“I want to, but I also need to” : start-ups resulting from opportunity and necessity

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2009

When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...

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Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011

This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits and further personality characteristics, which...

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