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Ñopo, Hugo - 2007

employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch …

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Occupational choice, number of entrepreneurs and output : theory and empirical evidence with Spanish data

Salas-Fumás, Vicente; Sanchez Asín, J. Javier; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 1, pp. 1-24

distinguishing between SEWEs and SEWNEs in drawing valid conclusions concerning any link between entrepreneurship and economic …

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The Gender Pay Gap Beyond Human Capital : Heterogeneity in Noncognitive Skills and in Labor Market Tastes

Grove, Wayne A. - 2014

Focused on human capital, economists typically explain about half of the gender earnings gap. For a national sample of MBAs, we account for 82 percent of the gap by incorporating noncognitive skills (e.g., confidence and assertiveness) and preferences regarding family, career, and jobs. Those...

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Gender Wealth Gap in Italy

D'Alessio, Giovanni - 2018

distribution of wealth. On the basis of reconstructed data, a large gap between men and women emerges, greater for financial assets …

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Struggle over th pie? : the gendered distribution of power and subjective financial well-being within UK households

Henau, Jerome De (contributor); … - 2007

This paper investigates the ways in which the distribution of power and well-being within couple households is gendered in the sense of having gendered determinants, from inside the household, rather than just gendered outcomes. We model such households, as Sen (1990) suggests, as sites of...

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Cognitive, non-cognitive skills and gender wage gaps : evidence from linked employer-employee data in Bangladesh

Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2015

We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive skills are important in determining mean wages, personality...

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Occupational choice and the quality of entrepreneurs

Inci, Eren - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 92 (2013), pp. 1-21

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Afterlife - who takes heart for restart?

Metzger, George (contributor) - 2006

entrepreneur is therefore one of the main success factors for the firm. Yet entrepreneurs differ considerably in their background … percent of novice entrepreneurs who file for bankruptcy reestablish afterwards. On average, slightly more than 15 months will … elapse until such ‘fallen’ entrepreneurs venture out anew. They differ from entrepreneurs not willing or able to take a …

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The impact of human capital on the emergence and development of new innovative firms

Lautenschläger, Arndt - 2016

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From latent to emergent entrepreneurship : the role of human capital in entrepreneurial founding teams and the effect of external knowledge spillovers for technology adoption

Ganotakis, Panagiotis; D'Angelo, Alfredo; Konara, Palitha - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 170 (2021), pp. 1-14

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