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Entrepreneurship among married couples in the United States : a simultaneous probit approach
Parker, Simon C. (contributor) - 2005
determinants of business ownership in America. -- entrepreneurship ; occupational choice ; family ; business ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003053136
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Entrepreneurship Among Married Couples in the United States : A Simultaneous Probit Approach
Parker, Simon C. - 2021
This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318338
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Entrepreneurship Among Married Couples in the United States: A Simultaneous Probit Approach
Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762325
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The jack-of-all-trades entrepreneur: innate talent or acquired skill?
Silva, Olmo - 2006
Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of … balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates entrepreneurship. Yet, none of these considers individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267719
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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen : Proclivity and Performance
Constant, Amelie F. - 2004
Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272295
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The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany : Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272299
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If you are so smart, why arent́ you an entrepreneur? : returns to cognitive and social ability ; entrepreneurs versus employees
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008
? Our individual fixed-effects estimates of the differential returns to ability for spells in entrepreneurship versus wage …-)cognitive abilities ; intelligence, earnings ; entrepreneur(ship) ; wage employment ; income differentials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796310
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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
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009
spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. -- Entrepreneurship ; self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003926421
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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, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009
spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277025
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Entrepreneurship in a unionised economy
Leppämäki, Mikko; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000
labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated … numerically. The main result is that an increase in union power reduces the equilibrium rate of entrepreneurship and reduces the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781656