We study the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the quality of entrepreneurship in China. Using long series of … high-skilled SOE employees were reluctantly unleashed into entrepreneurship. We also provide corroborating evidence for …

The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the … sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …

We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is …

established by non-star analysts. Extending traditional theories of entrepreneurship and labor mobility, our results also suggest … that drivers of turnover vary by destination: (a) turnover to entrepreneurship and (b) other turnover. In contrast to … turnover to entrepreneurship, star analysts are less likely to move to other firms than non-star analysts …

Why do levels of entrepreneurship differ across America's cities? This paper presents basic facts on two measures of … entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success … entrepreneurship is linked to a large number of small firms in supplying industries. Finally, there is a strong connection between area …

the lack of English language ability and the lack of legal status among Mexican American immigrants helps account for …

with experimentation to learn about earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to entrepreneurship … found to constitute a substantial portion of the monetary value of entrepreneurship. The model is then used to evaluate …