substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity - women and immigrants … substantially more financially rewarding option for most women. These findings raise the question of why low-skilled women enter … options and limited labor market opportunities in the wage/salary sector as motivating native born women to enter self …

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 …

We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such … accounted for by women's lower probability of holding any science or engineering degree, because women with such a degree are … scarcely more likely to patent than women without. Differences among those without a science or engineering degree account for …

that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in …This paper investigates cyclicality in women's labour supply motivated by the hypothesis that it contributes to …

literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The …

Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are engaged in creating new ventures. This chapter reviews the international …

Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are (alone or with others) actively engaged in creating a new venture and who … development of nations and regions, and that nascent entrepreneurs are by definition important for the foundation of new firms …, information about nascent entrepreneurs is important for understanding crucial aspects of the economy. The relevance of detailed …