Entrepreneurship has been characterised as one of the most intriguing but equally elusive concepts in economics. This … critical review first surveys its major intellectual roots and then proposes a modular concept of entrepreneurship that … definition identifies the only attribute that is both comprehensive and unique to the nature of entrepreneurship, while the …

-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …

="http://press.uchicago.edu/journals/jole/forthcoming.html?journal=jole">'Journal of Labor Economics'</A>, forthcoming.<P> Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of … own entrepreneurship. We explore the origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we … adoptive parents, but also for their biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large …

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

We model entrepreneurship and the emergence of firms as a result of simultaneous bidding for labor services among …

Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … be expected and respect. Furthermore, our results imply that entrepreneurship is associated with hard work, high incomes …