Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity …, and location matter for labor productivity in rural Africa, and that policy decisions tackling the shortcomings could …

conclude that policies to support young entrepreneurs in rural Africa should not only focus on creating conditions that attract …Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population … understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the … variables show consistency across the sample, we also find much heterogeneity, suggesting that rural entrepreneurship is also a … response to country-level circumstances and policies. Although more than 50 years have passed since rural development was …

The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … the best of our knowledge, that the productivity of rural non-farm enterprises in Africa has been studied in this way. …

We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … that entrepreneurs with more varied work experience are more likely to introduce innovations that have not only technical …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …

entrepreneurship research. To assess relative workforce heterogeneity, we construct a simulated benchmark to which we compare observed …

Previous empirical studies have shown that solo entrepreneurs benefit from having balanced skills: Jacks …-of-All-Trades (JATs) are better entrepreneurs than specialists are. Nowadays however, the majority of entrepreneurs start up and run … entrepreneurs. We also explore whether (a lack of) individual balanced skills can be substituted by combining the skills of various …