distribution of individuals from different groups is obtained by comparing expected utilities from employment and entrepreneurship …

Entrepreneurship is often credited with generating important positive economic externalities. For example … spillover. Governments increasingly view encouraging entrepreneurship as an important policy objective. Economists have long … studied the determinants of entrepreneurship. Taxation has also been found to be important, in particular income taxes and …

start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … in the market; and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage work … entrepreneurship where agents are heterogeneous in their ability as workers, and starting entrepreneurs face uncertainty about their …

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

This paper provides new theory and evidence on the relationship between ability and entrepreneurship. I show that there … is a U-shaped relationship between the probability of entrepreneurship and both a person's schooling and wage when … employed. This pattern can be explained in a model of occupational choice between wage work and entrepreneurship where a firm …