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technologies that transform jobs without necessarily displacing human workers increase the level of opportunity entrepreneurship …
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the association of unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship with necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship …
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initially rises in poor countries, slowing after roughly US$5,000 at purchasing power parity, and reversing after roughly $10 …
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opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative … indicate that the returns to a year of education for opportunity entrepreneurs are 3.5 percentage points higher than the paid …
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, including a large body of work on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity. This paper makes two contributions … inequality of opportunity fit within a general framework which involves, as a first step, a calculation of the extent to which … their means. This feature makes it particularly well-suited to measuring inequality of opportunity, as well as to any …
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opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative … indicate that the returns to a year of education for opportunity entrepreneurs are 3.5 percentage points higher than the paid …
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This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...
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We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A … are equilibria where either a single agent or no agent is responsible for a task but joint responsibility never arises …
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When a deficit occurs in the funding of collective goods, it is usually covered by raising the amount of taxes or by rationing the supply of the goods. This article compares the efficiency of these institutions. We report the results of a 2x2 experiment based on a game in the first stage of...
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possible to determine if the way well-being is measured matters for identifying who the opportunity-deprived are and for … tracking inequality of opportunity over time. We find that, regardless of how well-being is measured, the same people are … opportunity-deprived and equality of opportunity has improved over the past 20 years. This suggests that going beyond income has …
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