" 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 …

Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context … in shaping individual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in … entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become …

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 …

: 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 …

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 …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …

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 …

We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … and male entrepreneurs. Only male entrepreneurs seem subject to pressure to redistribute from the distant network. Our …