Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … 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 …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

In many countries entrepreneurship is promoted through tax reductions for small businesses and by various government …-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …

The paper investigates survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms during the 1994-1999 period. First, at a more … descriptive level one considered the (percentage) survival of newly created franchisors in the following years. The evidence … indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a few years and contrasts with the higher survival of firms in the franchising …

panel of European data on firm births and legal form of business to analyze income shifting via increased entrepreneurship … and incorporation. The results suggest that lower corporate taxes exert an ambiguous effect on entrepreneurship. The …

labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated … numerically. The main result is that an increase in union power reduces the equilibrium rate of entrepreneurship and reduces the …

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 …