chosen self-employment. Two questions are addressed using large scale labour force survey data for the UK. The first concerns … entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …

Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event' , the literature argues that selfemployed workers and … Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from …

The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly … further: The name is changed to The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, the Prize sum is roughly doubled to 100 …

small business sector's health. Previously this was difficult due to a lack of appropriate data. This paper fills this …-Books Online Payroll subscriber data (QBO Payroll sample) from 333,000 businesses in the US, 66,000 in Canada, and 25,000 in the UK …. After comparing the QBO Payroll sample data to the official statistics, we remove the seasonal components and use a Flexible …

uncertainty). This paper presents empirical evidence on the dynamics of entrepreneurial transition drawing on data from Waves 8 to …

This paper makes use of individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses in Sweden to estimate the …-income individuals face relatively neutral incentives, higher income households face strong tax incentives to be corporate. The data … suggest a strong response to these tax incentives. Many conventional non-tax determinants are confirmed in the data as well. …