Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … either entrepreneurs or self-employed. The survey in addition contains detailed questions on economic preferences, attitudes … differences between self-identified entrepreneurs and the self-identified self-employed. Entrepreneurs differ substantially from …

Most previous studies have found evidence at the aggregate level that female entrepreneurs underperform relative to … sample of 4200 entrepreneurs (405 females) with 1 to 20 employees in all sectors of the economy. Our study confirms the … results of several previous studies that female entrepreneurs tend to underperform relative to men when the data is examined …

entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second … observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to human capital than employees. We present an intuitive model showing that … for higher returns to human capital for entrepreneurs. …

Despite the central role played by human capital in entrepreneurship, little is known about how employees in …