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The chapters in The Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics provide the rationale for questionnaires used in the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED). The PSED is a research program that was initiated to provide systematic, reliable, and generalizable data on important features of the new business creation process. The PSED includes information on the proportion and characteristics of the adult population involved in efforts to start businesses, the activities and characteristics that comprise the nature of the business start-up process, and the proportion and characteristics of those business start-up efforts that actually become new businesses. The handbook also describes the PSED data collection process; provides documentation of the interview schedules, codebooks, data preparation and weighting scheme; as well as offers examples of how analyses of PSED data might be conducted. The authors identify specific measures that can be used to operationalize theory as well as provide evidence from the PSED data sets on these measures’ reliability and validity.
Labor Force Participation and Residential Tenure
Labor Force Participation and Residential Tenure
Immigrants bring innovative ideas and entrepreneurial spirit to the United States,…
The disadvantage theory which views entrepreneurs as misfits cast off from wage work is consistent with many of our findings.
Two “facts” about entrepreneurship persist with considerable tenacity:
Most businesses are started by immigrants, and
Most of those starting businesses are unemployed.
Much of the research related to these issues has used existing government data. But governments do not have precise data on those involved in the firm start-up process. Reliable data on the annual number of U.S. new firm births—the final transition from the start-up process—has only recently been available (Robb, 2000). Much population-based research related to these ...
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