We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and … and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …

This paper considers the question of whether changes in persistence have occurred during the long-run evolution of U … for a structural break when testing for a break in persistence, thus disentangling the effect of a deterministic break … from that of a stochastic break and advancing the existing literature on the persistence properties of non …

The paper studies the persistence of profit and its determinants in emerging markets. We apply Markov chain analysis … empirical results show a moderate level of profit persistence, as well as a relatively low speed of adjustment to the steady …-state profit level, thus providing no support for the hypothesis that there is a lower persistence of profits in emerging markets …

rate, namely its persistence and cyclical behaviour. It examines annual, monthly, bi-weekly and weekly data, from 1954 …

This paper examines the degree of persistence of youth unemployment (total, male and female) in twenty-four countries … longmemory processes respectively. The evidence suggests that persistence is particularly high in Japan and some EU countries …

Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite … suggests possible future research avenues. Key insights from the literature are that entrepreneurs may operate in imperfect … financial markets and that entrepreneurs are less risk-averse than the rest of the population. A focus of this paper is …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? Women have both to a lower entry rate into selfemployment and a higher exit rate …