: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm … change does not benefit all potential entrepreneurs equally, and there is a positive relationship between an individual …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …

" entrepreneurs. I use the estimated model to evaluate policies designed to promote entrepreneurship. …I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young … individuals. I use Canadian matched owner-employeremployee data to conduct my investigation. Empirically, older entrepreneurs and …

entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the … literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … that women entrepreneurs who are tenacious achieve stronger sales performance. Our results underscore the importance of …

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

We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants … entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers, but that in the public condition this ordering is reversed. Data from a … follow-up survey suggest that social image concerns of entrepreneurs and perceived norms can explain why entrepreneurs are …

We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …

the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in particular on their evolution over time …, heterogeneous firm model à la Lucas (1978): technological change does not benefit all potential entrepreneurs equally, and there is … a positive relationship between an individual’s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms …