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 …

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

transformation, will stagnate. One such endogenous driver is entrepreneurship. In this paper I start with the reappraisal of African … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to … describe how entrepreneurship reallocates farmers out of agriculture into non-agricultural activities and locations. Recent …

understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper … conclude that policies to support young entrepreneurs in rural Africa should not only focus on creating conditions that attract … young adults to start enterprises, but to also enable young entrepreneurs to improve productivity in already existing …

-farming entrepreneurship. We find that more productive farming households are more likely to also engage in non-farm entrepreneurship, allocate …

(urbanisation) is the outcome of the activities of entrepreneurs. Second, I provide a stylized overview of entrepreneurship and …Entrepreneurship, being largely an urban phenomenon, co-evolves over time with cities. While this relationship is like … co-evolution of entrepreneurship and cities. First, I provide a stylized model of development wherein the rise of cities …

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 …

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 …

between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra‐industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …

significantly higher propensity for entrepreneurship. The estimated difference ranges between 2.3 and 4.4 percentage points. Our …