The unshackled entrepreneur: Occupational determinants of entrepreneurial effort
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Entrepreneurship; Occupational; Characteristics; Entrepreneurial effort;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
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