understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper … the contribution they make to rural household income, the (ii) determinants of enterprise operation, and (iii) labor …Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population …

small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first …. They also suggest that remote regions are highly vulnerable to the out-migration of skilled workers ('brain-drain') while …

Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity …, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's LSMS-ISA database, we find that rural enterprises are on average less …, and location matter for labor productivity in rural Africa, and that policy decisions tackling the shortcomings could …

Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous … entrepreneurship at both edges of the size distribution. The model is then used to analyse the effects of productivity growth …, distortions, financial and labor market frictions, and risk. Capturing entrepreneurship across the size distribution allows for …

Entrepreneurship in most advanced economies is in decline. This comes as a surprise: many scholars have expected an … upsurge in entrepreneurship. What are the reasons for the decline? In this paper I first document the extent of the decline in …-side view and moreover fail to explain why the decline in entrepreneurship is largely confined to economies with high levels of …

general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …We provide an assessment of the state of scholarly and policy debates on migrant entrepreneurs in development. They are … often described as super-entrepreneurs who contribute to development through (i) being more entrepreneurial than natives …

particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically …

We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three … and non-monetary wellbeing to entrepreneurial allocation. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor we establish … that opportunity entrepreneurship may contribute towards national wellbeing and that better wellbeing in turn may stimulate …

the developing world tends to be low productivity employment, and as countries move up the development path, the …