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 …

entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and … 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 …

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of … roles increases the probability of becoming an entrepreneur. The intuition behind this proposition is that entrepreneurs …. This paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing Lazear's hypothesis using a large recent …

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. …

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 …

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