This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Estern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding th sources of enterpreneurship. A relativ demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27000 adults...

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...