Defining the problem -- Introduction -- Theory -- The environment of chinese entrepreneurs -- Case histories -- Real estate entrepreneur Wang.- Textile spin-off Niu.- LangLib - an online English study community.- Home renovator Cheng.- Migrant talor Yuan -- Restaurant entrepreneur Mr. B -- Less...

High rates of youth unemployment across the world have captured the attention of many world organizations and other policy makers. One policy solution that has been proposed to curb these high rates is encouraging youth entrepreneurship. In this paper, we examine the formation of attitudes that...

We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...