Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self-employment can offer, allowing them to balance their family...

Purpose: To investigate the gender impact of tertiary education on the probability of entering and remaining in self employment. Design/methodology/approach: We exploit a data set on labour market flows produced by the Italian National Statistical Office by interviewing about 62,000 graduate and...

In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the potential to enable youth to gain skills and create their own jobs. This paper presents experimental evidence on a new entrepreneurship track that provides business training and...

In der vorliegenden Publikation wird auf Basis der Hochschulabsolventenbefragungen der Jahre 2007, 2009 und 2011 sowohl das Ausmass der Selbstständigkeit als auch die berufliche Situation von selbstständig erwerbstätigen Hochschulabsolventinnen und -absolventen fünf Jahre nach Abschluss des...