crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question …: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relative …

We extend Lazear’s theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … framework linking new business creation with an entrepreneur’s skill variety. Second, in this model we allow for both … being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …

agglomerations) economic growth is mainly manifested in specific geographic areas, where creative people and innovative entrepreneurs …

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large ‘lab-in-the-field’ experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and …

positive for would-be entrepreneurs, in contrast to correlations in the data or uninstrumented estimates. Using firm data, we … also investigate how the newly insurance-induced entrepreneurs fare relative to their uninsured peers. Results suggest that …

We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the …

intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …

models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance … spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …