Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative … behaviour. However, little evidence has been collected on the link between these measures. In this paper, we use data from the … UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) combined with data from the Business Structure Database (BSD), and the Community Innovation …

We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and … innovation – in urban and rural labour markets. In order to do so, we combine individual and firm-level data for Britain … not evident when focussing on entrepreneurship. Finally, we show that the misalignment between self-employment and our …

new OECD project on the dynamics of employment (DynEmp) based on an innovative methodology using firm-level data (i …

possible the data refers to West Germany throughout. Note that the temporal coverage of these data differs from series to … series and country to country. The accompanying data can be downloaded at the link below. …

for microentrepreneurial success. Based on a survey and data collected by the authors, this study demonstrates that social …

Entrepreneurs are believed to be the ultimate engine of modern economic systems. Yet, the study of entrepreneurship … entrepreneur. This suggests that, if the JAT Attitude matters for entrepreneurship, it is an innate and time-invariant individual …

country. Using a unique data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find … which international financial integration can affect entrepreneurship (a foreign direct investment channel and a capital …