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 …

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 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 …

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 …

opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative … indicate that the returns to a year of education for opportunity entrepreneurs are 3.5 percentage points higher than the paid … employees' rate of 8.1%, but 6.5 percentage points lower for necessity entrepreneurs. …

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university … distribution in their previous salaried job. Surprisingly, the variation in hourly incomes of solo entrepreneurs is higher than … that of entrepreneurs with employees. …