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 … of data often is insufficient and difficult to access due to language barriers. We present an analysis of Swedish self …

. Using a dataset with over 24 million observations and more than 230,000 entries into entrepreneurship, we show that newly …

Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high …-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying contexts and economic systems make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of …

This paper contributes to the interpretation of entrepreneurship based on the effect of knowledge and cultural … background. Entrepreneurship is defined as both the self-employment and the entry density rates, comparing the two models. The … a regression analysis. The results confirm that cultural background strongly affects both entrepreneurship rates …

Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …

distinction is made between nascent entrepreneurship, new business formation and a combination of the two, referred to as total … entrepreneurial activity, as defined within the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). The model is also tested for the rate of … effects. Data from 27 countries (GEM, World Values Survey and other sources) are used to test the hypotheses. Findings confirm …

Using data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) earnings differentials between self-employed and wage …-employed workers in the German labor market are explored. Previous research based on US data reports lower incomes for entrepreneurs …