Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different … firms where government subsidizes entry of domestic entrepreneurs. Under autarky the entry subsidy indirectly corrects for …

consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The …

The theory proposed below is that entrepreneurs are jacks-of-all-trades who may not excel in any one skill, but are … individuals with balanced skills are more likely than others to become entrepreneurs. The model provides implications for the … proportion of entrepreneurs by occupation, by income and yields a number of predictions for the distribution of income by …

entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …

Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of … balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates entrepreneurship. Yet, none of these considers individual …

entrepreneurs, and spend more time in entrepreneurship. Among entrepreneurs, more of the firms run by individuals with low wages …Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To … start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and …

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non … entrepreneurs for returnees but matter for non-migrants. …