Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs …

successful than single entrepreneurs? These questions are analysed using data on academic spinoffs in Germany. Firm success is … measured by employment growth. I find that team foundations have higher employment growth than single entrepreneurs. Team …

Although comprehensive data from official statistics on new firm formation and entrepreneurs starting a new business …

We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched … worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self …-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find …

The theory proposed below is that entrepreneurs are jacks-of-all-trades who may not excel in any one skill, but are … individuals with balanced skills are more likely than others to become entrepreneurs. The model provides implications for the … proportion of entrepreneurs by occupation, by income and yields a number of predictions for the distribution of income by …

Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of … balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates entrepreneurship. Yet, none of these considers individual …