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Thinking about starting a franchise business? Think again

Cotei, Carmen; Farhat, Joseph - In: The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance (JEF) 26 (2024) 1, pp. 1-17

This study aims to explain the survival and exit outcome of franchise startups compared to other types of startups …. Small business owners choosing to become franchisees have high expectations about business survival since "franchise is a … proven business model that carries less risk." Using the Kauffman Firm Survey, we examine the survival patterns and M&A exit …

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How do local labor market conditions and individual characteristics affect quitting selfemployment?

Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2010

This paper investigates the joint effect of local labor market conditions and individual differences on the duration of self-employment periods. Using register based, data the study focuses on previously unemployed business founders who have received public support to realize their...

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Business Survival and Success of Young Small Business Owners

van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2003

Little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of business survival and success of small … business owners. In this paper I perform a duration analysis of business survival amongst young white (selfemployed) small … survival are derived from recent empirical evidence in related studies. The potential drivers of success are also derived from …

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Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs and their Duration in Self-employment: Evidence from German Micro Data

Block, Jörn H.; Sandner, Philipp G. - 2007

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we analyze whether necessity entrepreneurs differ from opportunity entrepreneurs in terms of self-employment duration. Using univariate statistics, we find that opportunity entrepreneurs remain in self-employment longer than...

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Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs and Their Duration in Self-employment: Evidence from German Micro Data

Block, Jörn; Sandner, Philipp - 2009

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The Effects of Displacement on Self-employment Survival

Nykvist, Jenny - 2008

how the displaced manage as self-employed. This paper studies how the survival of the business is affected by displacement …

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Competing risks models

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2005

A competing risks model is a model for multiple durations that start at the same point of time for a given subject, where the subject is observed until the first duration is completed and one also observes which of the durations is completed first. This article gives an overview of the main...

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Fixed-Term Contracts and the Duration Distribution of Unemployment

Güell, Maia - 2003

In the mid-1980s, many European countries introduced fixed-term contracts. Since then their labor markets have become more dynamic. This paper studies the possible implications of such reforms for the duration distribution of unemployment. I estimate a parametric duration model using...

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Stepping Stones for the Unemployed : The Effect of Temporary Jobs on the Duration until Regular Work

Zijl, Marloes; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Heyma, Arjan - 2004

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from temporary into regular work. We investigate whether temporary work increases the transition rate to regular work. In that case, temporary work may enhance labour market efficiency....

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Estimating the Threat Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes

Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2004

We combine two techniques to consistently estimate the effect of active labour market programmes and, in particular, active labour market policy regimes. Our aim is to explicitly estimate the threat effect of active labour market programmes. Based on Danish data (1998- 2002) from administrative...

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