finds that while entrepreneurship status and belonging to the middle class matter in terms of social mobility as measured by …

business characteristics, finding that entrepreneurship is rare but more frequent in the upper class than the middle or lower … for promoting higher productivity and welfare than policies encouraging entrepreneurship. …

This paper summarizes the findings in this special issue of the Latin American Journal of Economics on entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship. The income-persistent coefficients estimated with pseudo-panel data for Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay indicate that … entrepreneurship is a channel of intergenerational mobility, while asset persistence estimates for Mexico show that entrepreneurship …

This paper explores whether Colombia's middle class is a cradle of entrepreneurship that drives innovation and business … true for middle-class entrepreneurs in particular or if it is a result of entrepreneurship. Nor is there evidence that …