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Brown, J. David - 2019

Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...

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Entrepreneurship Over the Business Cycle in the United States : A Decomposition

Fossen, Frank M. - 2019

entry strongly applies to unincorporated entrepreneurship, but only weakly to incorporated entrepreneurship. This highlights … the association of unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship with necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship …

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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Becker, Sascha O. - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality : New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021

Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … for entrepreneurship research …

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State-Based Conflict and Entrepreneurship : Empirical Evidence

Naudé, Wim; Amorós, Ernesto; Brück, Tilman - 2023

This paper investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. From a survey of the … opportunity-motivated forms of entrepreneurship, and (2) a positive association with unproductive and necessity-motivated forms of … entrepreneurship. We test these hypotheses by drawing on several state-based conflict and entrepreneurship measures, using appropriate …

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The Rise of Female Entrepreneurs : New Evidence on Gender Differences in Liquidity Constraints

Sauer, Robert M. - 2015

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship …

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Better Means More : Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul - 2009

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …

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Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle : Migrants Versus Natives

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...

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Labour Costs and the Decision to Hire the First Employee

Cockx, Bart; Desiere, Sam - 2023

Firms without paid employees account for up to 80% of all firms, but only a small minority ever hires. This paper investigates the relationship between labour costs and the decision to hire a first employee and become an employer. Leveraging a unique policy in Belgium that permanently reduced...

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Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms' Entry, Survival and Growth

Santarelli, Enrico; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021

This survey paper aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of new-born firms. The basic purpose is to single out the microeconomic entrepreneurial foundations of industrial dynamics (entry and exit) and to characterise the founder's...

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