-of-origin composition of a county matters. Moreover, the culture, institutions, and human capital that the immigrant groups brought with …, measures of culture that capture attitudes towards cooperation play the most important and robust role. Finally, our results …

levels, time required for start-ups, corruption levels, literacy levels, etc.). In the short- and medium-term, culture …, institutions and transactions are exogenous for the economic and societal system. The paper aims to explore the roles of cultural … institutions is conducive to opportunity entrepreneurship. Performing a sensitivity analysis, we construct a hypothetical, more …