entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …-directed 'opportunity' entrepreneurship is more strongly associated with higher educational attainment. Those joining family businesses …

I develop a dynamic model of forward-looking entrepreneurs, who decide whether to operate in the formal economy or …

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …

Although comprehensive data from official statistics on new firm formation and entrepreneurs starting a new business …

. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …

less successful on average than non-Latino whites. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship …

When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors … employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because pull factors provide the rationale for their decision. However, a data set … of nearly 1,900 business start-ups by unemployed persons reveals that both kind of motivation can be observed among these …

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. …