Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous … heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for … entrepreneurship at both edges of the size distribution. The model is then used to analyse the effects of productivity growth …

We develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women … women entrepreneurs. However, there is one area in which female entrepreneurs have an advantage: the hiring of female …, policies promoting female entrepreneurship can significantly increase female LFP even without explicitly targeting female LFP …

This paper examines international temporary migration as an intermediary step among aspiring entrepreneurs to … entrepreneurs face, the paper shows that non-agricultural self-employment rates are significantly higher among returning migrants … transformation of lower-income countries by enabling credit-constrained workers to enter into non-agricultural entrepreneurship. …

entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants. -- Social capital ; entrepreneurship ; selection ; savings …The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non …

Since mid-2000s, Ethiopia has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, productive … entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …

-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … effects models. -- Entrepreneurship ; government ; market freedom ; corruption …

-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient … ; entrepreneurship …

shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some … enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses …

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 …