do not attract talented-but-reluctant entrepreneurs, but instead attract individuals with personality traits associated …

differentiates between entrepreneurs and other self-employed to address puzzling gaps that have emerged between theory and evidence … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts--and the data confirm--that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … highly-remunerated human capital, but other self-employed are negatively selected on those same abilities; entrepreneurs are …

We disaggregate the self-employed into incorporated and unincorporated to distinguish between "entrepreneurs" and other … "illicit" tendencies as youths accounts for both entry into entrepreneurship and the comparative earnings of entrepreneurs. In … contrast to past research, we find that entrepreneurs earn more per hour and work more hours than their salaried and …

We collect time-use data for entrepreneurs and their workers in over 1,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda. We …

evidence on trends in self-employment for the US by race, ethnicity and gender. Evidence is also presented for construction … which has self-employment rates roughly double the national rates and where there are strikingly high racial and gender …

With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we … answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender of venture capital partners' children. First, we find strong …. Second, using an instrumental variable set-up, we also show that improved gender diversity, induced by parenting more …

panel data from three rather different educational institutions, and use them to examine the relationship between the gender … composition of the students in an academic department and the gender composition of its faculty at the time the students were …

This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender … Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five important aggregates by gender: Asia, Africa, Latin America, G20, and … capital have grown over time in almost all countries. Attention must be paid to what has happened to the world's gender …