intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance …

The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from … established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural … exist trading diasporas which have a generally enhanced innovative capacity vis-à-vis local entrepreneurs, regardless of the …

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 …

prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very … similar in terms of risk taking preferences and network size. Want-to-be entrepreneurs however suffer from credit constraints …