This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality andunemployment in a general … regulations leadto a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between thesetwo policy options lies …

Economic Psychology on “Personality and Entrepreneurship”.The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … linkage between personality,socio-economic factors and entrepreneurial development. Results further explain the genderpuzzle … entrepreneurship research.... …

opportunities in the wage/salary sectorleaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdataavailable … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed lighton this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a majordeterminant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase theprobability that …

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types ofentrepreneurship across …. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in55 countries for 2001-2006, applying a …

, lenders may charge higherinterest rates or ration credit supply, which can hamper entrepreneurship. Both aspects of amore … entrepreneurship.... …

entrepreneurial development. Interestingly, entrepreneurs are more trustful thanemployees, but much less trustful than managers.... …

limited research on the topic of “entrepreneurship lock” by usingrecent panel data from matched Current Population Surveys. We … ownership in the month individuals turn 65. Our estimatesprovide some evidence that “entrepreneurship lock” exists, which raises …

relationshipbetween an individual’s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firmsconsistently benefit more from … “entrepreneurship out of necessity” falls with income percapita. The paper also documents, for two of the facts for the first time, that …