impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to … perspectives that focus on low-cost immigrant labor or immigrant entrepreneurship. …

across the various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer surveys (2002 and …

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 …

This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25 European Union member states and the United States. The most surprising of …

through these stages. Data are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European …

models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …

hypotheses, we use household survey panel data for Germany eliciting the personal wealth composition in detail in 2002, 2007, and … into entrepreneurship, we use changes in entry regulation into skilled trades. Estimation results are consistent with the …