This paper asks: do remittances promote entrepreneurship? Remittances have become one of the largest forms of cross … and entrepreneurship rates across countries. Our results suggest that remittances promote early-stage business development … (Meyer & Shera, 2017). By directly providing relief, remittances are an important income and capital source for family …

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 …

regulation we use, we always find a detrimental effect of regulation on entrepreneurship. While women are overall less likely to …"We use two micro data sets that collect harmonized data across countries to investigate the effects of regulation on … start new businesses, in more regulated countries women are pulled into entrepreneurship not to pursue a business …