Entrepreneurship is often claimed to be important for generating employment. However, the empirical evidence on the … relationship between entrepreneurship is not always convincing. Most of the studies that analyse the relationship between new firm … formation and employment growth perform their analysis on cross-country or regional data. At the micro-level, we still know …

growth. Regarding the relationship between entrepreneurship and employment growth, the empirical evidence to some extent … relationship. Studies that find a negative relationship usually employ non-harmonised self-employment rates as the measure of …During the last decades, enhancing entrepreneurship has emerged as commonly used policy- measure in order to improve …

entrepreneurship in the sense that there is an identifiable person that takes the uninsurable risk in the sense of Knight. This paper …

. We also use the Survey of Consumer Finances to confirm that self-employed business owners constitute a large share of US … top earners. In 2013, 58 percent of the top 0.5 percent earners in the US self-identified as self-employed business owners … behind the increase in top incomes. Furthermore, increasing returns to entrepreneurship may be an important yet little …

interrelationship between entrepreneurship and the quality of business regulations. The empirical findings indicate that there is a … positive relationship between entrepreneurship, and the quality of business regulations. …

the productivity of incumbent firms is modeled as a function of firm attributes and regional entrepreneurship activity …. The analysis finds support for positive productivity effects of entrepreneurship on incumbent firms, albeit the effect … sectors appears to be more responsive to regional entrepreneurship, as compared to the productivity of manufacturing firms. …

. Despite this fact many explanations to entrepreneurship only considers the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs. This is …. In this pa¬per we illustrate empirically that variations in the rate of entrepreneurship are explained not only in terms … of characteristics of entrepreneurs, such as education, sector of employment, occupation, experience and income but also …

entrepreneurship and new firm formation are critical factors in determining economic growth and development. New firm entry into the …

to different domains. While the former is appropriate for knowledge-based entrepreneurship, the latter is primarily valid …