We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …

, socio-economic attributes, and start-up project characteristics that correlate with necessity entrepreneurship …

In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits … and associated peer effects. We study how early career entrepreneurship is affected by existing entrepreneurship among … male and female peer groups explain approximately half of the gender gap in early career entrepreneurship …

household income.Based on individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large-scale survey on entrepreneurship in …

We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use …