describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sourcesof data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses …

Economic Psychology on “Personality and Entrepreneurship”.The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … informative longitudinal data sets at the individual level are needed in order tofind conclusive answers. In an ideal world … researchers would have access to data thatincludes personality characteristics and psychological traits, motivational factors …

economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate …) constraints and develops a theoreticalframework that examines the main obstacles to entrepreneurship in Africa’s LDCs. The … economies, development of productive entrepreneurship cannot be left tomarkets alone. The policy analysis suggests that the …

opportunities in the wage/salary sectorleaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdataavailable … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed lighton this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a majordeterminant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase theprobability that …

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types ofentrepreneurship across …. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in55 countries for 2001-2006, applying a …

, lenders may charge higherinterest rates or ration credit supply, which can hamper entrepreneurship. Both aspects of amore … naturalexperiment, based on representative household panel data. The results indicate that theinsurance effect of a more forgiving … entrepreneurship.... …

limited research on the topic of “entrepreneurship lock” by usingrecent panel data from matched Current Population Surveys. We … matched monthly CPS data, we comparethe probability of business ownership among male workers in the months just before … ownership in the month individuals turn 65. Our estimatesprovide some evidence that “entrepreneurship lock” exists, which raises …

relationshipbetween an individual’s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firmsconsistently benefit more from … “entrepreneurship out of necessity” falls with income percapita. The paper also documents, for two of the facts for the first time, that … these are exactlythe relationships prevailing in cross-country data. Quantitatively, the model fits the U.S.experience well …