A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …

. Using a dataset with over 24 million observations and more than 230,000 entries into entrepreneurship, we show that newly …

enter entrepreneurship, to become self-employed, and to switch to another employer. The effects of layers are much stronger … for business creation than for jobswitching and they are stronger for entrepreneurship than for self-employment. However … fewer layers having a broader range of skills. -- entrepreneurship ; employee mobility ; hierarchy, rank, small firm effect …

to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. …

for higher returns to human capital for entrepreneurs. -- Entrepreneurship ; Ability ; Occupational Choice ; Human Capital …

based on Swedish data for the entire post-war period. Available tax data indicate that payroll taxes have had a negative …-tax welfare state. Earlier time-series studies analyzing self-employment and taxation have with few exceptions been based on data …. -- Entrepreneurship ; Self-employment ; Taxation ; Welfare state …

entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; labour market dynamics ; transition determinants ; employee-employer data …In contrast to previous efforts to model the individual‘s movement from wage work into entrepreneurship, we consider … this group and our understanding of self-employment entry and labor market dynamics. Using matched employee-employer data …

entrepreneurship among movers. The first dataset consists of 1,248, U.S. lawyers who were forced to seek alternative employment after …