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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

start-up activity and larger shares of unemployed among the starters in a region) has a positive effect on the individual …

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Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data : An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2010

Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More information including estimates of recent...

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Skills, Scope, and Success : An Empirical Look at the Start-Up Process in Creative Industries in Germany

Kohn, Karsten - 2018

household income.Based on individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large-scale survey on entrepreneurship in … Germany, our regression results show that entrepreneurs in creative industries tend to be younger and better educated than …

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What's the Difference?! Gender, Personality, and the Propensity to Start a Business

Furdas, Marina Dimitrova - 2010

Women start fewer businesses than men. The start-up rate among women in Germany falls short of males' start-up rate by …-scale population survey on start-up activity in Germany. As a unique feature, the data combine socio-demographic characteristics …, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …

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"I Want to, But I Also Need to" : Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

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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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021

Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...

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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-Up Costs

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2021

entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship …. The model predicts that, with liquidity constraints, the probability of entering entrepreneurship is an increasing … wealth profile for the fraction of workers in entrepreneurship, start-up costs weaken this relationship by depressing the …

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Time Use and Time Budgets : Improvements, Future Challenges and Recommendations

Merz, Joachim - 2009

"Time-use statistics offer a unique tool for exploring a wide range of policy concerns including social change; division of labour; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the value of household production; transportation; leisure and recreation; pension plans; and health-care...

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Item Non-Response and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2021

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...

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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance : Evidence from Mexico

Kumler, Todd J. - 2013

Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of wages by formal firms to evade payroll taxes. We develop a simple partial-equilibrium model of...

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