entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and … prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very …

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and …

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs …

personal contacts with a young entrepreneur and the regional share of nascent entrepreneurs. …

entrepreneurship where agents are heterogeneous in their ability as workers, and starting entrepreneurs face uncertainty about their … to become entrepreneurs, and spend more time in entrepreneurship. Among entrepreneurs, more of the firms run by …Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To …

describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses …

rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk … entrepreneurs. The empirical results confirm that persons whose risk attitudes are in the medium range survive significantly longer … as entrepreneurs than do persons with particularly low or high risks. …