environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect individual decisions to become entrepreneurs and aspirations to set up high …

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs …

prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very … similar in terms of risk taking preferences and network size. Want-to-be entrepreneurs however suffer from credit constraints …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relative … contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy based on four measures that have most widely been studied empirically. Hence, we …

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 …

and nascent intrapreneurship. Nascent entrepreneurs tend to leverage their general human capital and social ties to …

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a …

where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … hinges on risk tolerance and patience. Parents expecting their children to become entrepreneurs have an incentive to instill … entrepreneurs there are in a society hinges, in turn, on parental investments in children's patience and risk tolerance. There can …