since self-employment is on the rise in many countries, particularly own-account self-employment. Drawing on EU-SILC data …

Empirical studies show low pecuniary returns of switching from wage employment to entrepreneurship. We reconsider the … transfers is used as an exclusion restriction to identify causal effects. The model is estimated on data covering the whole … indicate that the average returns to entrepreneurship are significantly negative for individuals entering entrepreneurship …

longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …

separation hazards by job duration, separately for all 37 countries with available data. Quantitative analysis of the model shows …

significant barrier to small-firm creation. -- self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; micro-lending …

Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event', the literature argues that self-employed workers and … Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from …

entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …

CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the current austerity regimes, CEs and community entrepreneurship are …

, disproportionately more. We test our theoretical prediction using a novel administrative panel-data from Indian courts and the nationally … representative MSME survey data. Empirically, we treat entrepreneurs from disadvantaged castes (SC-ST) as those without traditional …

what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …