leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint …

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …

populations. First, more that demonstrating the importance of cultural diversity for entrepreneurship, we show that the type of …

between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra-industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …

If entrepreneurs are liquidity constrained and cannot borrow to operate on an efficient scale, those with more personal … entrepreneurs from being able to exploit a "hump" in marginal productivity. From the 75th to the 99th percentile returns drops by …

. Obtaining external resources is a central issue for nascent entrepreneurs - people who are in the process of starting new … new dataset of over 900 nascent entrepreneurs with information on financing from conventional sources as well as business …

Portugal, enabling us to link companies to their owners, we show that firms owned by serial entrepreneurs (owners of multiple … to other businesses. These differences are already apparent among the very first businesses of serial entrepreneurs … entrepreneurs as an important source of such heterogeneity …

This paper examines the effects on wages and employment of the minimum wage in agriculture in the United Kingdom during …