implications of our findings for entrepreneurship-policy making, and give suggestions to improve governmental start-up programs. …

Because entrepreneurial activity can stimulate job creation and long-term economic growth, promoting entrepreneurship … starting a business, especially in transition economies that lack established institutional systems and markets. The main …

rather than a binary employment-entrepreneurship decision and explores how cognitive determinants influence these choices. I … on a self-employment definition of entrepreneurship or on uni-dimensional drivers has obscured these more complex choices …

and entrepreneurial entry has relied on data providing only a snapshot of the transition into self-employment. The present …

I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young …" entrepreneurs. I use the estimated model to evaluate policies designed to promote entrepreneurship. …

relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …

that, after the Reunification, entrepreneurship is higher among the residents of East German regions with West TV signal …

compatible with the free-market economy principles and supportive of entrepreneurship. We show that during the 40 years of … socialistic regime in East Germany entrepreneurship was highly regulated and virtually impossible and that the prevalent formal … and informal institutions broke the traditional ties linking entrepreneurship to the characteristics of individuals so …