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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369416
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282246
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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720700
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Self-employment at older ages in Canada
Fonseca, Raquel; Lord, Simon; Parker, Simon C. - 2020
This paper examines the work motivations and incentives of employees and selfemployed workers near retirement age. We use a sample of Canadians 50 years and older taken from LISA, the Longitudinal and International Study of Adult. Results are as follows. Poverty is associated positively with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012542508
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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. -- entrepreneurship ; jack-of-all-trades ; risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523510
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; capital constraints ; transitions ; entry barriers ; business start-ups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518408
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The continued search for the solow residual : the role of national entrepreneurial ecosystem
Acs, Zoltán J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - 2014
that NEE affects the efficiency by which inputs are turned into outputs shifting the production function. We use data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438892
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Foreign direct investment and domestic entrepreneurship : blessing or curse?
Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Estrin, Saul; Reynolds, Paul … - 2013
between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra‐industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224595
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Entrepreneurial Entry: Which Institutions Matter?
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
working age population survey data taken from the Global Enterprise Monitor. A methodological contribution is the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822242
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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
the impactsboth of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals chooseentrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255496