A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …

A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …

survival rates and little contribution to job creation, economic growth, and innovation. In this paper, we use a rich data set … who started from non-unemployment and did not receive the subsidy. The data allows us to analyze their business …

entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

administrative and survey data and observe participants in two distinct start-up programs in Germany for five years after start-up as …

This paper analyzes the mobility between self-employment, wage employment and non-employment. Using data for men in …

longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …