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 …

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 …

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 …

In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on … data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the …