This paper studies the influence of cultural and economic variables on differences in the level of self-employment in more than twenty Western nations and Japan, for the period 1974-1994.

This paper describes a model designed to explain the observed developments of the business ownership rate as well as gross entry and exit rates. Besides explaining the past, the model is used for exploring the future using scenario analysis.

Increasingly, the importance of entrepreneurship and self-employment is being acknowledged by both scientists and policy makers. High degrees of entrepreneurship (innovation) and self-employment (the number of independent enterprises) are assumed to contribute to economic growth and job...

This paper deals with differences in the rate of self-employment (business ownership) in 15 European countries for the period 1978-2000, focusing on the influence of dissatisfaction and using the framework of occupational choice. Using two different measures of dissatisfaction, in addition to...

Persistent differences in the level of business ownership across countries have attracted the attention of scientific as well as political debate. Cultural as well as economic influences are assumed to play a role. This paper deals with the influence of cultural attitudes towards uncertainty on...

The aim of the present short paper is to show that since the 1970s the world has changed considerably, and that this change has had consequences for the current policy debate on the determinants of economic growth. Our paper deals with some aspects of the recent scientific literature on the...