> Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance … of time. An implication of our novel finding is that entrepreneurship and higher education policies should be considered …

claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question … answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …

individuals starting a business after a period of long-term unemployment and those individuals with a lack of better employment …

been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has …

up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is … available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary basis, we estimate the causal effect of UI cover on the self-employment …

paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their …

We extend Lazear’s theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …

-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …

wages given up as an employee. Information on income from self-employment is ofinferior quality and this is not just a … problem for the outside researcher, it is an imminent problem of theindividual considering self-employment. We also argue that … ignored. We predict that highermean, lower variance and higher skew in the wage distribution in a particular employment …