consistent with poorly endowed entrepreneurs who operate in imperfect capital markets and a very risky environment …

US entrepreneurs typically work long hours in their firms and these hours form a large part of the firms' labor input …. This paper studies the role of endogenous owner hours in shaping the wealth distribution among entrepreneurs. We introduce … levels and the dispersion of wealth among entrepreneurs. Long owner hours incentivize poor, highly productive individuals to …

We investigate whether entrepreneurs in the network of refugees - from the same country of origin - help refugees … negatively affected by the number of those who are employees. This suggests that network members who are entrepreneurs hire …

: 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 …

digital economy, digital entrepreneurs pursue opportunities to produce and trade in digital artifacts on digital artifact …

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 …