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 …

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

This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in … attention to unique issues that arise with female entrepreneurship …

We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women’s agency. The approach … measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, first, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of …

This paper investigates how direct election regimes (à la presidential democracy) affect the selection of women into …

We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United … entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States supports our model’s underlying mechanisms. …

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 …