" 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 …

entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the nonpecuniary benefits of running a … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to … open a business. This has important consequences for entrepreneurship policies. For example, subsidies for small businesses …

-farming entrepreneurship. We find that more productive farming households are more likely to also engage in non-farm entrepreneurship, allocate …

: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm … change does not benefit all potential entrepreneurs equally, and there is a positive relationship between an individual …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …

By allowing agents to switch from entrepreneurship to wage work and vice versa over the life cycle, this study proposes … a dynamic Jacks-of-All-Trades (JAT) model where entrepreneurs invest in highly varied skills to manage their business …

fact that human capital on the individual and regional levels may be interrelated in affecting entrepreneurship. We use … the level of entrepreneurship activity via individual and aggregated pathways and that the price elasticity of diverse …

We investigate whether nonprofit and for-profit entrepreneurs share similar observable and unobservable skills. In JLE … 23:649-680, 2005 "Jacks-of-all-Trades" model of entrepreneurship, individuals with more diverse academic and occupational … training are more likely to become entrepreneurs, while more narrowly trained individuals become employees. Data on college …

distinguishing between SEWEs and SEWNEs in drawing valid conclusions concerning any link between entrepreneurship and economic …

likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated … the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence …