We review Baumol's typology of productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. We argue that the typology is … the thesis that entrepreneurship has become less productive, due to the unintended effects of entrepreneurship policies … adopted widely in Western economies. These have straight-jacketed, distracted and zombified entrepreneurship. Removing these …

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …

-employment. We do not find empirical evidence of similar constraints among immigrant women. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship …

entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants. -- Social capital ; entrepreneurship ; selection ; savings …

both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal … financial sector. -- Female entrepreneurship ; state sector ; informal finance …

, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …. -- Entrepreneurship ; gender difference ; start-up propensity ; decomposition analysis ; KfW Start-up Monitor ; Germany …

of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a … unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of …