We present a wage-hours contract designed to minimize costly job turnover given investments in on the job training …

likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated … the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence …

-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self …

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 …

entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and … prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very …

psychological disposition and environmental factors, as theory requires if optimism is to be a causal influence on entrepreneurship …

A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but …