describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses …

We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze …

options. Utilizing data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of …

-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation panels, this paper analyzes …

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. …

-White self-employment gap is not driven by the existence of White immigrants in the data set. In addition, we find that within …

a positive relationship between an individual's potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms … consequence, the entrepreneurship rate falls with income per capita, average firm size and firm size dispersion increase with … income per capita, and entrepreneurship out of necessity falls with income per capita. The paper also documents, for two of …

limited research on the topic of entrepreneurship lock by using recent panel data from matched Current Population Surveys. We … matched monthly CPS data, we compare the probability of business ownership among male workers in the months just before … business ownership in the month individuals turn 65. Our estimates provide some evidence that entrepreneurship lock exists …

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to … perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. …