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. …

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 …

This paper tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills …

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 …

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 importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in particular on their evolution over time …, heterogeneous firm model à la Lucas (1978): technological change does not benefit all potential entrepreneurs equally, and there is … a positive relationship between an individual's potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms …

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 …