understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper … conclude that policies to support young entrepreneurs in rural Africa should not only focus on creating conditions that attract … young adults to start enterprises, but to also enable young entrepreneurs to improve productivity in already existing …

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university … distribution in their previous salaried job. Surprisingly, the variation in hourly incomes of solo entrepreneurs is higher than … that of entrepreneurs with employees. …

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university … distribution in their previous salaried job. Surprisingly, the variation in hourly incomes of solo entrepreneurs is higher than … that of entrepreneurs with employees. …

Are college dropouts successful entrepreneurs? Other than anecdotal evidence on illustrious college dropouts who … addresses this issue by investigating the relationship between college dropout or graduation and entrepreneurship activity as …

transformation, will stagnate. One such endogenous driver is entrepreneurship. In this paper I start with the reappraisal of African … agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to … describe how entrepreneurship reallocates farmers out of agriculture into non-agricultural activities and locations. Recent …

Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous … heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for … entrepreneurship at both edges of the size distribution. The model is then used to analyse the effects of productivity growth …

. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years … education for men. The results suggest that formal education enhances entrepreneurship. …

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …