survival rates and little contribution to job creation, economic growth, and innovation. In this paper, we use a rich data set … who started from non-unemployment and did not receive the subsidy. The data allows us to analyze their business …

unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of … of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a …

entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

administrative and survey data and observe participants in two distinct start-up programs in Germany for five years after start-up as …

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

As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important …

potential economic gains and benefits. Using rich data on a representative sample of German business founders, we investigate …

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