employment rates of African-American men. Black business ownership rates increased significantly after program initiation, with … the black-white gap falling three percentage points. The evidence that the racial gap in employment also fell is less … clear as it is depends on assumptions about the continuation of pre-existing trends. The black gains were concentrated in …

China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …

We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … and male entrepreneurs. Only male entrepreneurs seem subject to pressure to redistribute from the distant network. Our …

, finance and business, we envision a Greek "Silicon Valley" and propose a ten point policy plan to achieve that goal. …

We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …

entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent … 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 …

innovative entrepreneurship, that will also be discussed bridging entrepreneurial studies with the development literature …

: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm … change does not benefit all potential entrepreneurs equally, and there is a positive relationship between an individual …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …

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. …