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. …

-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient …

-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …

shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some … enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses …

return migrants while explicitly differentiating between self-employment as either own account work or entrepreneurship … characteristics closer to non-participants in the labour market (i.e. lower education levels), while entrepreneurship is positively … migrated, return migrants are significantly more likely not to participate in the labour market or to be entrepreneurs. However …

entrepreneurship. Third, inefficiencies in the transmission of tacit knowledge between generations of entrepreneurs can arise: with …This paper identifies several distortions which create barriers to entrepreneurship. First, in addition to the innate … access to within-family ownership transfer, the outside market for entrepreneurship operates as a lemon's market. This …

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 …