measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

entrepreneurs across the country. The annual Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, a leading indicator of new business … immigrant and native-born rates. Although the increase in entrepreneurship rates among immigrants was driven entirely by low … both men and women (from 0.41 percent to 0.42 percent for men and from 0.20 percent to 0.24 percent for women). • With the …

The rate of entrepreneurial activity among women dropped sharply in 2007 while the activity rate among men and …, which remained constant at 0.27 percent.2. Men are now twice as likely as women to start a business each month, a larger … 2006 to 0.41 percent in 2007. The rate decreased from 0.23 percent to 0.20 percent for women.3. The entrepreneurial …

Although research on entrepreneurship is growing rapidly, there are very few large national data sets that provide … measure of entrepreneurship has been developed: the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity. Separate estimates of the …