Why So Many Local Entrepreneurs?

By Claudio Michelacci, Olmo Silva. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines (2015, neutral): “Related work includes Miracky (1993), Davis, Haltiwanger, and Schuh (1996), Acs and Armington (2006), Glaeser and Kerr (2009), Ghani, Kerr, and OConnell (2010), Haltiwanger, Jarmin, and Miranda (2012), Hurst and Pugsley (2012), and Faggio and Silva (2012).”
Entrepreneurship and Market Size - The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy (2010, background): “Sixth, we test whether the negative urbanization differential persists after controlling for two proxies of local economic development: the province's unemployment rate and value added per capita in 1994, similarly to Michelacci and Silva (2007).”
Taxation, corruption, and growth (2016, neutral): “Recent empirical work also highlights that entrepreneurs disproportionately operate in their home regions (e.g., Figueiredo et al. 2002, Michelacci and Silva 2007), which limits the extent to which entrepreneurs would simply move to better opportunities.”
What makes student entrepreneurs? On the relevance (and irrelevance) of the university and the regional context for student start-ups (2016, background): “…empirical observation that individuals generally launch start-ups where they were born, work or live (Stam, 2009) – and that that these entrepreneurs are more successful with their new firm than those who move to another region to start their firm (Dahl & Sorenson, 2012; Michelacci & Silva, 2007).”
Social capital access and entrepreneurship (2010, background): “…adoption in the process of product creation (Bramoulle and Kranton, 2007), grant access to resources like labor or finance in the startup phase (Michelacci and Silva, 2007; Amit et al., 1990), and might even provide psychological aid in the business creation process (Sanders and Nee, 1996).”
Industry structure, entrepreneurship, and culture: An empirical analysis using historical coalfields (2016, background): “…low level of schooling and thus human capital among migrants from rural areas and 2) the lack of local support networks that are conducive for accessing and exploiting resources required for starting an entrepreneurial venture (e.g., Figueiredo et al., 2002; Michelacci and Silva, 2007; Stam, 2007).”
Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain? (2009, positive): “Michelacci and Silva (2007) find that Italian and U.S.”
Entrepreneurship, Evolution and Geography (2009, background): “The fraction of entrepreneurs working in the region where they were born is significantly higher than the corresponding fraction for dependent workers (Michelacci and Silva 2007).”
Clusters of Entrepreneurship (2009, positive): “Several empirical studies find entrepreneurs are more likely to be from their region of birth than wage workers, and that local entrepreneurs operate stronger businesses (e.g., Figueiredo et al., 2002; Michelacci and Silva, 2007).”
Reward-based crowdfunding of entrepreneurial projects: the effect of local altruism and localized social capital on proponents’ success (2017, positive): “In providing further support for the idea that space matters in crowdfunding, our work is consistent with contributions showing that the areas where entrepreneurs reside affect the financing of their ventures (e.g., Guiso et al. 2004a, 2004b; Michelacci and Silva 2007).”
Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature (2018, positive): “…lasting legacies potentially impact industrial organization (e.g., Fallick et al., 2006; Audretsch and Feldman, 2012; Carlino and Kerr, 2015), and are reflected in the higher degree to which entrepreneurs operate in the regions of their birth than wage workers (e.g., Michelacci and Silva, 2007).”
Knowledge context and entrepreneurial intentions among students (2012, background): “Moreover, there is ample empirical evidence that the majority of entrepreneurs tend to set up their business in their home region and that young firms are very unlikely to change location ( Michelacci and Silva 2007; Stam 2007; Zander 2004).”
Buy local? The geography of venture capital (2010, background): “Several papers document the importance of geographic factors such as local birth (Michelacci and Silva (2007)) and entrepreneurial levels of peers (Giannetti and Simonov (2008)).”
Self-employment and entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets ☆ (2014, background): “Moreover, previous research shows that entrepreneurs tend to be local and set up their business in the location where they were born and still reside (Michelacci and Silva, 2007).”