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shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering … credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some … enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses …

that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relative … contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy based on four measures that have most widely been studied empirically. Hence, we …

We develop an equilibrium model where risk-averse agents can choose between employment and entrepreneurship. An …. However, we show that income risk is not the only driver for the occupational choice of agents with entrepreneurship options … - as commonly argued. Instead, more risk-averse agents with those options have a lower valuation of entrepreneurship, and …

relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …

incorporation, implying that entrepreneurs face financial constraints, but not business registration, implying that financial …, for serial entrepreneurs, during economic booms, and in neighborhoods without local lenders, are important for …

conducive to entrepreneurship and the notion that self-reliance, self-determination and proactive behavior are desirable from … entrepreneurship incidence is higher among the residents of regions that had TV signal than in regions without TV, indicating a first … more likely to become entrepreneurs and the last exposed cohort becomes "too old". However, we also find that non …

entrepreneurs. In the context of entrepreneurship, profiling should therefore only be seen as a first step on the way from the usual … entrepreneurship. Moreover, we compare prototyping with entrepreneurial profiling, another person-oriented approach to the Big Five …, which assumes that low levels of agreeableness and high levels of all other traits describe a particular entrepreneurship …

craft entrepreneurs from other types of entrepreneurship. The paper concludes with implications for policy and research. …Personality is a key driver of self-employment decisions. For this reason, the personality traits of entrepreneurs or … entrepreneur - as a classic form of strategic entrepreneurship. Based on a large, representative German household panel data set …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance … spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …