How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance … spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … performance in developing economies looks at variations in impact across specific characteristics of the studies. A marginal year … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …

Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship … performance. The entrepreneur's human capital is, though, only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture … formulate the following proposition: The performance of an entrepreneur is not only affected positively by her own education …

effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …

countries. First, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as theirrelevance for entrepreneurship. Second … (uncertaintyavoidance) may have a diverging impact on entrepreneurship. Possibly, a climate of uncertainty avoidancein large organizations …This paper deals with the influence of cultural attitudes towards uncertainty on the level of businessownership across …

in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …