confirmed in an empirical study of the German clothing industry. …

results imply that entrepreneurs react to tax incentives along both real and avoidance margins, while the latter elasticity is …

conferred by time zone differences. We emphasize the role of the entrepreneurs, who decide how to produce business services (i … zone differences. We also show that in the presence of moving costs for entrepreneurs, technological improvements and the …

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census … Kingdom and Canada -- we examine the performance of Indian entrepreneurs and explanations for their success. We find that … business income of Indian entrepreneurs in the United States is substantially higher than the national average and is higher …

spin out. This is shown to predict the association of co-ethnic networks with high rates of entrepreneurship and the …

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance …