opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …

A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth – net housing equity – for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

knowledge from the source creating it to the firm actually commercializing the new ideas. In this paper, entrepreneurship is … identified as one such mechanism facilitating the spillover of knowledge. Using a panel of entrepreneurship data for 18 countries …

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census …

Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the decision-making context of the individual. The … entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature … suggests that opportunities are endogenous. This paper bridges the gap between the entrepreneurship and economic literature on …

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …