Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous …

Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption … ceiling were undermined in nations with severe gender inequality …

We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We … document that both earnings and income are more concentrated among entrepreneurs than among workers and describe a large … of the German pay-as-you-go pension system in which entrepreneurs must also contribute and receive a pension. We show …

We propose a new method for measuring gender and ethnic stereotypes in news reports. By combining computer vision and … women and Hispanics are under-represented. We also document that news content perpetuates common stereotypes such as …, we show that the relationship between visual representation and racial stereotypes holds even after controlling for the …

operating or to re-open. We show how these patterns differ across industry, firm size, owner gender, and other firm …

The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test … requirements are detrimental to entrepreneurship. Second, we test whether corruption reduces the negative impact of regulations on … entrepreneurship in highly regulated economies. Our empirical analysis for a maximum of 43 countries over the period 2003-2005 shows …

entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of tacit knowledge between generations of entrepreneurs can arise: with …This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate … access to within-family ownership transfer, the outside market for entrepreneurship operates as a lemon's market. This …

entrepreneurs must repeatedly seek external funds to finance a sequence of risky projects under conditions of both adverse selection …