A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter …-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship, there are many challenges to creating a definition that is both objective and empirically feasible. We propose an …

entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business … start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …

We exploit Germany’s reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at … university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West …

We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We … Germany does not help to improve its fiscal sustainability, and only an increase in the retirement age to 70 years will help …

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. …

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

We study the link between homeownership, mortgage debt, and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and … homeowners start a business; and (ii) the negative relation between mortgage debt and entrepreneurship is more pronounced when … income volatility is higher. Our model further predicts that the relation between housing wealth and entrepreneurship is …