We explore the country-specific institutional characteristics likely to influence an individual's decision to become an entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from corruption, and on 'market freedom' defined as a cluster of variables related to protection of property...

In contrast to the very large literature on skill-biased technical change among workers, there is hardly any work on the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in particular on their evolution over time. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change...

Innovative entrepreneurship plays a key role for the economy development and several policy interventions are usually implemented to support and sustain the phenomenon, at least in numerical terms. However previous studies highlight that is not the number of startups which enhance the economic...