business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started …

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high … unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the 'refugee' effect). On the other hand, higher … rates of self employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing unemployment in subsequent periods (the …

unemployment discourages entrepreneurship. …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 …

entrepreneurship into state economic development and incubate entrepreneurial companies. Regional entrepreneurship policy is a new … with the needs and expertise of private industry to accelerate entrepreneurship and economic growth. …

populations. First, more that demonstrating the importance of cultural diversity for entrepreneurship, we show that the type of …

between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra-industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …

We study how a mortgage reform that exogenously increased access to credit had an impact on entrepreneurship, using … point increase in entrepreneurship, equivalent to a 4% increase in the number of entrepreneurs. New entrants were more … benefit from the reform. Our results provide evidence that credit constraints do affect entrepreneurship, but that the overall …

entrepreneurship, depending on entrepreneurial ability. The effect of market size on the equilibrium share of entrepreneurs crucially … entrepreneurship, can increase or decrease with market size. The properties of the underlying ability distribution largely determine …