-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model … are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000 adults in six transition economies. Estimated selfemployment earnings premia … related to schooling, pre-transition family income, receipt of property in restitution, precommunist family business …

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. -- Entrepreneurship ; self …

. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; occupational choice ; immigrants ; wage ; differentials …

findings are relevant for transition or emerging economies as well as for mature market economies requiring large structural …

aimed at stimulating opportunity entrepreneurship versus active labor-market policies supporting self-employment as a way … of new opportunity and new necessity entrepreneurship for the 17 Spanish regions. To test whether exogenous shocks have … more widespread in new opportunity than in new necessity entrepreneurship, implying that shocks and temporary policies are …

I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young …" entrepreneurs. I use the estimated model to evaluate policies designed to promote entrepreneurship. …

unemployment. -- Entrepreneurship ; push and pull motives ; survival and failure ; job creation …

with critical variations due to labour market conditions. At the time of transition around 1990 children's educational …