-equation vector autoregression model capable of reconciling these ambiguities and tests it for data of 23 OECD countries over the …

opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …

self-employment rates. With representative German data and unconditional quantile regression analysis we show that an …

promoting: i) micro-entrepreneurship in Brazil; and ii) the formalisation of entrepreneurs. Regarding the promotion of micro-entrepreneurship …

credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on …

context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …

performance are more likely driven by differences in risk aversion or preferences for entrepreneurship rather than by skill. …

's own life or work situation (which is not optimism). Our data highlight the importance of measuring optimism correctly …