-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family …

survival rates and little contribution to job creation, economic growth, and innovation. In this paper, we use a rich data set … who started from non-unemployment and did not receive the subsidy. The data allows us to analyze their business …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

data is provided. Individual demographic and resource characteristics are found to be more important, but place effects are … relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …

administrative and survey data and observe participants in two distinct start-up programs in Germany for five years after start-up as …

longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …

programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the … entrepreneurship hazard is highly responsive with respect to UI incentives, and that the probability of starting up a new business … employment hazard, it has no effect on entrepreneurship. We speculate that this reflects the programs' one-sided focus on job …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … formation in an instrumental variables framework, using a previously unexplored data set from the UK. The new results indicate … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …