This article investigates the influence of informal and formal institutions on the university students' decision of … becoming employer entrepreneurs (university students that create a new firm with employees) in the context of Catalonia. A … sample of 1207 students from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya were …

using structural equation techniques over a sample of 549 final year university students from two Spanish regions (Catalonia … and Andalusia). Results confirm that valuation of entrepreneurship in each region helps explain regional differences in …