"This paper demonstrates that levels of entrepreneurship can be greatly affected by the general policy environment …. Using a state-level panel, we estimate the effects of several policy variables on rates of entrepreneurship and find that … bankruptcy exemptions, corporate tax rates, and the level of the minimum wage all affect a state's rate of entrepreneurship. For …

these two hypotheses empirically using a pooled time series for a cross-section of countries in the southern cone of Africa …

employment and entrepreneurship. These obstacles are mirrored in low female labor rate participation and low entrepreneurship and … female labor as a production factor, and then focusing on female entrepreneurship and firm ownership. Using country and … advantage in female labor – both in terms of female employment and female entrepreneurship and ownership – in the MENA countries …