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

fraction of these self-employed jobs are of low productivity subsistence entrepreneurs. The focus of the entrepreneurship …This paper provides a review of the profiles of the subsistence entrepreneurs and their constraints, and the landscape … of current entrepreneurship programs and the evidence on impacts, and discusses the potential role of public policies for …

employees) and employer entrepreneurs (self-employed individuals with employees) provides seminal insights. Thus, this study … entrepreneurs (n = 103) from the European Working Condition Survey (EWCS 2010). A simple t test revealed that the solo self …-employed individuals report lower levels of affective commitment to their business than employer entrepreneurs. Moreover, regression …

The nonpecuniary benefits of managing a small business are a first order consideration for many nascent entrepreneurs …, yet the preference for business ownership is mostly ignored in models of entrepreneurship and occupational choice. In this … occupational choice. This choice yields several important results: (1) entrepreneurship can be thought of as a normal good …