behind the increase in top incomes. Furthermore, increasing returns to entrepreneurship may be an important yet little …

Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …

Entrepreneurship policy mainly aims to promote innovative “Schumpeterian” entrepreneurship. However, the rate of … entrepreneurship is commonly proxied using quantity-based metrics, such as small business activity, the self-employment rate or the … entrepreneurship. In order to unambiguously identify high-impact entrepreneurs we focus on self-made billionaires (in USD) who appear …

their home community at higher rates than employees. Entrepreneurship too appears to be local, with private equity be …

burdens have higher entrepreneurship rates but less self-employment. Europe has a higher self-employment rate than the United … States and East Asia. At the same time, Europe has a lower entrepreneurship rate than competitor regions. Europe … underperforms in entrepreneurship despite having advantages such as a skilled labour force, good infrastructure, large markets and …

. It appears impossible to produce a single definition of entrepreneurship and most theoretical approaches yield … concept. Numerous empirical studies have examined the effects of entrepreneurship, but few studies have been undertaken in … of this paper is to provide a critical overview of recent empirical research on the relationship between entrepreneurship …