: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …

significant barrier to small-firm creation. -- self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; micro-lending …

a positive relationship between an individual’s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms … consequence, the entrepreneurship rate falls with income per capita, average firm size and firm size dispersion increase with … income per capita, and "entrepreneurship out of necessity" falls with income per capita. The paper also documents, for two of …

enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship …. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; capital constraints ; transitions ; entry barriers ; business start-ups …

start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … persist in the market, and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage … entrepreneurship where agents are heterogeneous in their ability as workers, and starting entrepreneurs face uncertainty about their …

-employment ; entrepreneurship ; female ; minority ; Hispanic ; Latina …

-employment. We do not find empirical evidence of similar constraints among immigrant women. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship …

-employment ; entrepreneurship …

"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across … market. This evidence is a challenge for existing theories of heterogeneous firms. -- Entrepreneurship ; firm size …