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 …

substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity - women and immigrants … substantially more financially rewarding option for most women. These findings raise the question of why low-skilled women enter … options and limited labor market opportunities in the wage/salary sector as motivating native born women to enter self …

Women have always been underrepresented among founders in Germany. This underrepresentation has increased again in the … that the propensity of women to start a business has declined even more than that of men. On the other hand, a far above … up, contributes to this. Some of the enterprises founded by women have different industry foci than those founded by men …

Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self …

-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate different earnings measures addressing the role of business equity. We compare … earnings of Hispanic female entrepreneurs to both Latina wage/salary workers and to self-employed female non-Hispanic whites …. Latina entrepreneurs are observed to have lower mean earnings than both white female entrepreneurs and Latina employees …

evaluations which are restricted to microfinance clients, we consider two more representative groups: a random sample of women … operating subsistence enterprises, and a random sample of women who are out of the labor force but interested in starting a … of follow-up surveys taken over two years and find that the short- and medium-term impacts differ. For women already in …

Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as … bias or not. We show that entrepreneurs have more favorable beliefs about nationwide conditions and then that these … entrepreneurs' beliefs are relatively good predictors of the future. We conclude from these two findings that entrepreneurs are less …

Existing empirical evidence suggest that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence … entrepreneurs have more favorable beliefs about nationwide conditions. We then show that these entrepreneurs' beliefs are relatively … good predictors of the future. We conclude from these two findings that entrepreneurs are less biased towards optimism than …

gender gap in entrepreneurship, finding that the family may serve as a stronger influence than society when implied norms of …

likely to become entrepreneurs. By not havingtaken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated …-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …