development. Two extensions of the original setup are addressed: using longer time series of averaged data of 23 OECD countries … penalties for being above or under the ‘equilibrium’ rate. The additional data do not provide evidence of a superior statistical …

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of im-migrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …

of working hours. Using data of 1203 entrepreneurs we find that the preference for work time in new ventures is related …

Two approaches can be distinguished with respect to modelling entrepreneurship: (i) the approachfocusing on the net … Netherlands using self-employment data for the 1960-99 period. We find error-correction of about20% per year and a very different …

for the hypothesised effects using a data panel of 23 OECD countries. An important policy implication of our exercises is …

knowledge based entrepreneurial activity. Second, knowledge based entrepreneurship positively affects regional economic … performance. We test these hypotheses using county level data from West Germany, employing a structural equation model to analyze … particular, our results suggest that innovation efforts have an indirect effect on economic performance via entrepreneurship …