Start-up subsidies for the unemployed have long been an important active labor market policy strategy in Germany. The …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

: they can become entrepreneurs. Using very small-scale (NUTS-3) administrative data on immigrants' location in Italy, the … local presence of immigrant entrepreneurs (i.e. firms owned by foreign-born entrepreneurs) in the manufacturing sector, and … relationship going from diasporas and immigrant entrepreneurs towards export flows. Both the size of the diaspora and the number of …

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner …

search model and empirical analysis of survey of entrepreneurs from Swaziland. The results show that entrepreneurs of both … entrepreneurs, formal finance sources of start-up capital are also associated with higher sales. However, as in other developing … countries, women entrepreneurs in Swaziland have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to fund it from formal sources …

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 …