Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we analyze whethernecessity entrepreneurs differ from … opportunity entrepreneurs in terms of self-employmentduration. Using univariate statistics, we find that opportunity entrepreneurs … remain in selfemploymentlonger than necessity entrepreneurs. However, after controlling for the entrepreneurs’education in …

mainwinners from increasing economic freedom were the entrepreneurs. Thereligious were little affected by the changes. This …

entrepreneurs and theirperceptions. Using individual-level data from 43 countries from the period 2002 to 2005, wefind that neither … of entrepreneurial activity in specific circumstances. There ishence scope for entrepreneurs, and policies supporting …

“Entrepreneurs out of necessity” identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey area sizeable group across …

is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relative … contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy based on four measures that have most widely been studied empirically. Hence, we … answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

the cases of spin-offs and habitual entrepreneurs. The subject of unemployment-driven entrepreneurship is also explored … chances, while more general forms of human capital may help inexperienced entrepreneurs overcome the barrier posed by the …

This paper investigates whether the presence of ambitious entrepreneurs is a more important determinant of national … extent to which high growth ambitions of entrepreneurs affect GDP growth for a sample of 36 countries. Our results suggest …

varieties which corres-pond to the early stage of the product life cycle. Moreover, because entrepreneurs serve as agents that … profit benefit entrepre-neurs and skilled labor. By contrast, factors of production employed in the mature stages of the life …