Entrepreneurship plays an increasingly prominent role in both academic and policy circles. It is regarded as the … small enterprises has led to an increase in entrepreneurship policies aimed at encouraging more people to consider … entrepreneurship as an option and act on a business idea. This thesis examines policy measures that are offered to nascent and young …

attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census …

spin out. This is shown to predict the association of co-ethnic networks with high rates of entrepreneurship and the …

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 …