Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … either entrepreneurs or self-employed. The survey in addition contains detailed questions on economic preferences, attitudes … differences between self-identified entrepreneurs and the self-identified self-employed. Entrepreneurs differ substantially from …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … entrepreneurs have markedly different psyche than others (8 out of 14 traits differ). However gender differences in traits do not …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography …

Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context … in shaping individual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in … entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become …

" entrepreneurs. I use the estimated model to evaluate policies designed to promote entrepreneurship …I investigate the mechanisms that drive sorting into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial success among young … individuals. I use Canadian matched owner-employeremployee data to conduct my investigation. Empirically, older entrepreneurs and …

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch …