rather than a binary employment-entrepreneurship decision and explores how cognitive determinants influence these choices. I … on a self-employment definition of entrepreneurship or on uni-dimensional drivers has obscured these more complex choices …

entrepreneurship for an international large sample of countries for a period of six years (2007-2012). The dimensions of country …. Rule of law; 6. Control of corruption. To capture the quality of business environment we use the Ease of doing business … index developed by the World Bank in its Doing Business report series. To measure entrepreneurship we use the World Bank …

The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test … requirements are detrimental to entrepreneurship. Second, we test whether corruption reduces the negative impact of regulations on … wheels" hypothesis. -- corruption ; start-ups ; grease the wheels ; entrepreneurship ; regulation ; doing business …