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Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....
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on U.S. tax returns to study the role of the gig economy on entrepreneurship. We find that gig workers are more likely to …
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-group entrepreneurship reveals that stronger networks enhance the relationship between social engagement and business formation. Also, as … searching for capital are important for understanding-policies aimed at boosting rates of entrepreneurship in underrepresented …
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This paper uses Norwegian tax records to examine the performance of angel investors. While most angel investments perform poorly, mean returns are twice the invested capital, due largely to extreme skewness: around one-third of investments are a total loss, but the top one-percent return more...
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. This paper presents a model of entrepreneurship in which women face disadvantages, including discrimination from workers … in middle-income countries, where the returns to entrepreneurship are high enough to offset gender-based costs and both … more usually in industries with low levels of skilled workers. Despite the entrepreneurship rate's reversal of the U …
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underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …
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, we find that 6% of Republicans and 4% of Democrats become entrepreneurs. This partisan entrepreneurship gap is time …-varying: Republicans increase their relative entrepreneurship during Republican administrations and decrease it during Democratic … entrepreneurship around the elections of President Obama and President Trump, and the strongest effects among the most politically …
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economic activity in the form of higher entrepreneurship. Using administrative census data linked to the complete formal …
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Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …
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This study examines gender differences in the social impact and commercial motives for academic entrepreneurship using … the National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps) program. I-Corps provides experiential entrepreneurship … are more interested in pursuing commercialization and entrepreneurship activities when they are tackling societal problems …
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