up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is … positive for would-be entrepreneurs, in contrast to correlations in the data or uninstrumented estimates. Using firm data, we …

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 …

non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international PISA-2006 student-level data to estimate the … shares, students’ academic skills, and parents’ entrepreneurial occupation. -- private school competition ; entrepreneurship …

Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The … success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at … background and neighborhood effects as determinants of entrepreneurship, by estimating sibling correlations in entrepreneurship …

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census … data from the three largest developed countries receiving Indian immigrants in the world -- the United States, United …

employees towards becoming entrepreneurs: exit from the current firm and entry into entrepreneurship. In other words, we study … identification strategy based on comparisons of same-gender matches of bosses and employees, using rich register data for Denmark. We … show that same-gender entrepreneurial bosses have a great impact on employees’ future entrepreneurship choices, especially …

data. Weak evidence is found for the proposition that the rate of entrepreneurship is related to the degree of income …We find evidence in the OECD cross-country data to support the Knightian view that non-diversifiable economic risks … shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and …