We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …, 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 …

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …

-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the … enterprises tend to be small, informal household enterprises that provide predominantly goods and services to the local economy … variables show consistency across the sample, we also find much heterogeneity, suggesting that rural entrepreneurship is also a …