evidence indicates that women participate less in or exert lower effort during contests. We exploit the unique features of the … promotion system for French academics to look at women’s attitudes towards competition in an actual labour market. Using data … of women in contests. In contrast, women have a substantially lower probability than men to enter the promotion contest …

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 …

. There is no evidence that the EMP improved economic performance by empowering women, increasing human capital investment …

opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …

A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth – net housing equity – for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity …

We study the link between homeownership, mortgage debt, and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and … homeowners start a business; and (ii) the negative relation between mortgage debt and entrepreneurship is more pronounced when … income volatility is higher. Our model further predicts that the relation between housing wealth and entrepreneurship is …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …