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Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice

Poschke, Markus - 2021

start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … persist in the market, and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage … entrepreneurship where agents are heterogeneous in their ability as workers, and starting entrepreneurs face uncertainty about their …

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The Jack-of-All-Trades Entrepreneur : Innate Talent or Acquired Skill?

Silva, Olmo - 2021

Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of … balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates entrepreneurship. Yet, none of these considers individual …

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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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Entrepreneurship of the Left-Behind

Giulietti, Corrado - 2013

While there is evidence that return migration promotes entrepreneurship and self-employment of those who migrated … impact of migration on entrepreneurship among individuals with no migration experience. We explore the self …

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If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability : Entrepreneurs versus Employees

Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; van der Sluis, Justin - 2021

? Our individual fixed-effects estimates of the differential returns to ability for spells in entrepreneurship versus wage … generates a higher income, but only for entrepreneurs: This finding supports Lazear's Jack-of-all-Trades theory …

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Switching Costs and Occupational Transition into Self-Employment

Henley, Andrew - 2009

Contemporary dynamic theories of self-employment choice focus on occupational switching costs, and the risk associated with entrepreneurial income streams. However little or no previous research has addressed the question of what factors determine the length of time that it takes aspiring...

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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 - 2021

The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...

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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice : Empirical Evidence from Germany

Fossen, Frank M. - 2007

Entrepreneurial activity is often regarded as an engine for economic growth and job creation. Through tax policy, governments possess a potential lever to influence the decisions of economic agents to start and close small businesses. In Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced...

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Symbolic Values, Occupational Choice, and Economic Development

Corneo, Giacomo - 2007

Channeling human resources into the right occupations has historically been a key to economic prosperity. Occupational choices are not only driven by the material rewards associated with the various occupations, but also by the esteem that they confer. We propose a model of endogenous growth in...

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Tax Progressivity and Self-Employment Dynamics

Arulampalam, Wiji; Papini, Andrea - 2023

Analysis of the relationship between taxes and self-employment should account for the interplay between responses in self-employment and wage employment. To this end, we estimate a two-state multi-spell duration model which accounts for both observed and unobserved heterogeneity using a large...

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