describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses …

ambiguities and estimates it for data from 23 OECD countries between 1974 and 2002. The empirical results confirm the existence of …

options. Utilizing data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of …

chosen self-employment. Two questions are addressed using large scale labour force survey data for the UK. The first concerns … entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …

worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …

Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession 'entrepreneurship' shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … be expected and respect. Furthermore, our results imply that entrepreneurship is associated with hard work, high incomes …

enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship. …

Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and … entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It … than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as …