The importance of liquidity constraints as one of the main entry barriers to entrepreneurship has been recently put in … question. Hurst and Lusardi (2004) show that the probability of transition to entrepreneurship is inelastic along most of the … entrepreneurship. This paper challenges this view. I estimate a life cycle model of occupational choice that includes human capital …

Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of … balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates entrepreneurship. Yet, none of these considers individual …

Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the decision-making context of the individual. The … entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of innovation in the economics literature … suggests that opportunities are endogenous. This paper bridges the gap between the entrepreneurship and economic literature on …

generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … strengthening patent protection will reduce the returns to entrepreneurship sufficiently to reduce overall economic growth. …

Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of … balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates entrepreneurship. Yet, none of these considers individual … entrepreneur. -- entrepreneurship ; occupational choice ; skills …

mit der Kompetenzdimension verbunden zu sein scheint. -- entrepreneurship ; "Jack-of-all-Trades" ; competence ; desire …

the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship …