: 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 …

Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the … origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and … biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large, representative sample of the Swedish …

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

In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship … compared to the municipality of residence. Our results indicate that the entrepreneurship literature must reconsider its …

-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …