a new business and classification and regression trees for an accurate interpretation of the data. Our results support … impact on new business creation across all countries in our sample. Our findings are consistent with the idea that …

results show that the median self-employed entrepreneur with employees earns significantly more than the median salaried … employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

- such as fear of failure in starting a business venture, whether individuals expect that good opportunities are likely to … have a positive and significant impact on business creation, Natural Disasters have a positive and negative impact on … extreme events on perception variables such as Fear of Failure, Expected Business Opportunities, and Expected Level of …

willingness to trust other people influences the probability of starting a business; ii) trust, positive reciprocity, and negative … probability of being an entrepreneur versus an employee or a manager. Our findings reveal that, in particular, trust impacts …

opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative …

Why do people engage in entrepreneurship and commit large parts of their personal wealth to their business, despite …

We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and … under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business … and that they have long-lasting effects. -- Entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; new business formation ; persistence …