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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees

van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …

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Do risk attitudes differ within the group of entrepreneurs?

Block, Joern; Sandner, Philipp; Spiegel, Frank - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The notion of risk and entrepreneurship has been widely discussed in the entrepreneurship literature. Starting a … about risk attitudes of entrepreneurs and to the literature about necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship. …

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The Relationship between Business Ownership and Unemployment in Spain: A Matter of Quantity or Quality?/La relación entre el autoempleo y el desempleo en España: Una cuestión de cantidad o de calidad?

VERHEUL, INGRID; VAN STEL, ANDRÉ; THURIK, ROY; URBANO, … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 24 (2006) Agosto, pp. 435-457

This paper examines the interrelations between self-employment and unemployment rates for Spain in the period 1972-2004, comparing them with the general pattern observed for OECD countries. We apply the model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) to Spain. The divergence...

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Determinanten des Erfolgs staatlich geförderter Existenzgründungen – eine empirische Untersuchung

Sandner, Philipp G.; Block, Jörn H.; Lutz, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

die Entrepreneurship-Forschung sowie für die Entrepreneurship-Praxis werden diskutiert. Herausforderungen aus Sicht der …-AG” or “me-plc” in January 2003, this share has increased strongly. Entrepreneurship research so far has said very little … perspective of entrepreneurship research as well as from a perspective of governmental start-up policy. …

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Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance

Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

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Riding the Waves of Reforms in Corporate Law, an Overview of Recent Improvements in Italian Corporate Codes of Conduct

Sabatini, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...

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The comparison of incomes of self-employed and salaried workers among German Nationals and immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2005

This paper attempts to compare the economic success of immigrants and natives in Germany. Employing data from German Socioeconomic Panel, the paper investigates the factors affecting self-employment as well as compares the income of self-employed and employed workers among four groups – West...

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Does Self-Employment reduce Unemployment?

Thurik, A. Roy; Carree, Martin A.; Stel, Andre van; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the "refugee" effect). On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased...

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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Praag, C. Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … group'? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals' utility levels …

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Self-Employment and Unemployment in Spanish Regions in the Period 1979-2001

Golpe, Antonio; Stel, Andre van - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional level in Spain in the period 1979-2001. We estimate a vector autoregression model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) using a data base for Spanish...

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