’ home countries affect entrepreneurship. We find that children of immigrants from more risk-loving cultures are more likely …This paper investigates impact of cultural origin on entrepreneurship. Using Swedish registry data on second …-generation immigrants and risk appetite measures from the Global Preference Survey (GPS), we investigate whether risk preferences in parents …

We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or …

on how risk exposure and income are related to preferences for redistribution. To test our hypotheses, we extract … detailed risk exposure measures from labor force surveys and marry them to cross-national survey data. In a second step, we …

: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm … newly introduces the last three to the literature. It then proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …

cross-country productivity differences. In a parallel literature, national measures of entrepreneurial activity and pro-entrepreneurship … predicts higher ratings for the Acs-Szerb Global Entrepreneurship Development Index (GEDI). Results hold after controlling for …

: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm … introduces the last three to the literature. It then proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in entrepreneurial … payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than others …

entrepreneurship for an international large sample of countries for a period of six years (2007-2012). The dimensions of country … index developed by the World Bank in its Doing Business report series. To measure entrepreneurship we use the World Bank … Group Entrepreneurship Survey where the number of new registered businesses, as a percentage of the working age population …

Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow … that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …

commentators have argued that the subsequent rise in unemployment exceeded previous estimates of the elasticity of the unemployment …-term estimate of Okun’s coefficient implying that the deviation in unemployment during the crisis resulted from a larger output gap … period utilized. Focusing more on short-term fluctuations, changes in unemployment are decomposed to identify the association …