employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch …

Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … for entrepreneurship research …

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship …

one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …

In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior … of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this …

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 …