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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? : female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...

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The Higher Returns to Formal Education for Entrepreneurs versus Employees

van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - 2014

employees. We refer to this as the entrepreneurship returns puzzle. We run post hoc analyses to explore a number of potential …

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? : female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

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Is it the survival of the fittest or of the jacks-of-all-trades? : business survival in the light of Lazear's theory

Mackiewicz, Michał; Kurczewska, Agnieszka - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 26 (2023) 2, pp. 167-180

,656 entrepreneurs and former entrepreneurs. We base our research on the theory of entrepreneurship by Edward Lazear, according to which …

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Peculiarity of hybrid entrepreneurs - revisiting Lazear's theory of entrepreneurship

Kurczewska, Agnieszka; Mackiewicz, Michał; Doryń, Wirginia - In: Journal of business economics and management 21 (2020) 1, pp. 277-300

The aim of this study is to explore and elaborate the concept of hybrid entrepreneurship, i.e., a simultaneous mix of … self-employment (entrepreneurship) and salary employment. Lazear's theory of entrepreneurship is assessed in terms whether …

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Immigrants and entrepreneurship : business ownership is higher among immigrants, but promoting self-employment is unlikely to improve outcomes for less skilled immigrants

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2014

successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …

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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis

Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010

Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...

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The effects of entrepreneurship education

Weber, Richard; Graevenitz, Georg von; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2009

Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, but little research is available to … assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importance to understand whether entrepreneurship education raises … intentions to be entrepreneurial generally or whether it helps students determine how well suited they are for entrepreneurship …

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The gender gap in entrepreneurship : not just a matter of personality

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2014

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

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