entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the …

We examine returns to entrepreneurship using a standard measure of welfare, the per capita consumption xpenditure …

Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative …

We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and … not evident when focussing on entrepreneurship. Finally, we show that the misalignment between self-employment and our … proxies for entrepreneurship in rural areas disappears once we account for local labour market conditions. Our results suggest …