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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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entrepreneurship entry and exit intentions during the pandemic. To that end, we analyze primary survey data we collected in the … remote work also matter for entrepreneurial intentions. Our findings enhance the understanding of entrepreneurship formation … and closure in a time of adversity and suggest that implementing entrepreneurship training and upskilling policies during …
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increased number of migrants in Europe, factors that positively impact their entrepreneurship and integration merit …
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We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda …
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We study the origins of entrepreneurship (culture) in the United States. For the analysis we make use of a quasi … entrepreneurial personality traits. Due to a genetic founder effect and the formation of an entrepreneurship culture, we expect gold … rush counties to have higher entrepreneurship rates. The analysis shows that gold rush counties indeed have higher …
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We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than other occupational groups. We compare their playing strategies in an optimal stopping game using a randomized online experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and...
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. In order for the continent to benefit from the 4IR more needs to be done to improve entrepreneurship and education. A … number of policy recommendations for 4IRcompatible entrepreneurship and education policies are made …
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I develop a dynamic model of forward-looking entrepreneurs, who decide whether to operate in the formal economy or informal economy and choose how much to invest in their businesses, taking government policy as given. The government has access to two policy tools: taxes on formal business...
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Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The … success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at … background and neighborhood effects as determinants of entrepreneurship, by estimating sibling correlations in entrepreneurship …
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household income.Based on individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large-scale survey on entrepreneurship in …
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