Noorderhaven, Niels G.; Wennekers, Sander; Hofstede, Geert - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
This paper studies differences in the rate of self-employment (business ownership) in more than twenty Western nations and Japan for the period 1974-1994, focusing in particular on the influences of dissatisfaction and uncertainty avoidance. We test two types of hypotheses, pertaining to the...