Mulling over Massachusetts: Health Insurance Mandates and Entrepreneurs

Abstract

The author provides preliminary and provocative results regarding the impact of health insurance mandates on the propensity of entrepreneurs to start new organizations. In keeping with a well-observed propensity for individuals to adjust their economic calculations in anticipation of future costs/benefits, the evidence suggests that when confronted with such mandates, potential entrepreneurs may either abandon entrepreneurial ambitions or seek to minimize mandate costs through jurisdictional arbitrage with appreciable implications for state and national level approaches to health care, health insurance provision, and workers.

Entrepreneurial Intention and Outcome Expectancy: Evidence from South Korea and China

“…Opportunities, characterized by ambiguity and uncertainty, are created, grown, and destroyed by evolutionary processes. People intending to engage in entrepreneurship expect to face uncertainty and ambiguity as they exploit opportunities (Alvarez & Barney, 2007;Jackson, 2010). Creation theory suggests an opportunity-uncertainty framework in entrepreneurship, reflecting the human tendency to be involved in the evolution from uncertainty to opportunity (Jackson, 2010).…”

“…People intending to engage in entrepreneurship expect to face uncertainty and ambiguity as they exploit opportunities (Alvarez & Barney, 2007;Jackson, 2010). Creation theory suggests an opportunity-uncertainty framework in entrepreneurship, reflecting the human tendency to be involved in the evolution from uncertainty to opportunity (Jackson, 2010). It has been suggested that people who are more willing, or able, to take advantage of uncertainties are more likely to have an entrepreneurial spirit and thus to value opportunities and their outcomes (Swierczek & Ha, 2003), perhaps because of their greater confidence in assessing uncertainty-opportunity evolutionary processes.…”

Entrepreneurship, Small Business and Public Policy Levers

“…Whereas many businesses depend on a particular location and therefore can only consider the policy environment in terms of “go/no‐go” decisions and to a much lesser extent, the potential for subsequent policy change, others have choices. They can choose one jurisdiction over another, thereby realizing more options and forcing jurisdictions to implicitly, when not explicitly, compete for their location (see Jackson 2010 as a recent example). Still, owners and their businesses must eventually locate, making them subject to a specified set of public policies.…”

Differential Effects Of Entrepreneurship Education On Entrepreneurial Intention Among Science And Non-Science Students’ In Nigerian Polytechnics

“…DOI: 10.9790/0837-22030498104 www.iosrjournals.org 99 | Page to him, creation theory suggests an opportunity-uncertainty framework in entrepreneurship, reflecting the human tendency to be involved in the evolution from uncertainty to opportunity [9]. The importance of entrepreneurship has made entrepreneurial education to gain worldwide recognition in most developed and developing countries.…”

“…They have social skills and possess a balance between intuition and thinking [8]. A person's decisions to choose entrepreneurial careers tend to be greatly influenced by the extent to which he or she values these two factors in processing cognition [9]. The key to improving perceptions within society and within higher education according to [1] lies in education, according…”