The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of … "Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses," the paper comprises four parts: a … systematic review of the literature on the effect on entrepreneurship and small businesses; a discussion of four literature …

Entrepreneurship in most advanced economies is in decline. This comes as a surprise: many scholars have expected an … upsurge in entrepreneurship. What are the reasons for the decline? In this paper I first document the extent of the decline in …-side view and moreover fail to explain why the decline in entrepreneurship is largely confined to economies with high levels of …

We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of … on entrepreneurship has been sharper in areas with industrial districts. After examining alternative explanations …

.S. economy. But Davis et al. (1996a) argued that this conclusion was flawed, and based on improved methods and using data for the … data, we examine evidence for the overall economy, as well as for different sectors. The results indicate that small firms …

relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …

"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across …

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 …

In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the … entrepreneurship track that provides business training and personalized coaching to university students in Tunisia. Undergraduates in … standard curriculum.This paper relies on randomized assignment of the entrepreneurship track to identify impacts on labor …