What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship?A Review of Recent Research

This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively andsystematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value.Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution ofentrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relativecontribution of entrepreneurs to the economy based on four measures that have most widelybeen studied empirically...

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Year of publication:	2007-08-01
Authors:	Praag, Mirjam van ; Versloot, Peter H.
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Innovation \| Arbeitsproduktivität \| Entrepreneurship \| Selbständige Arbeit

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Series:	IZA - Forschungsdinstitut für die Zukunft der Arbeit - Discussion Papers IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 3014 (2007)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	D24 - Production; Capital and Total Factor Productivity; Capacity ; D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; E23 - Production ; E24 - Employment; Unemployment; Wages ; J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; J28 - Safety; Accidents; Industrial Health; Job Satisfaction, Related Public Policy ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; M13 - Entrepreneurship ; Entrepreneurship. Biographies of entrepreneurs ; Personnel management, Personnel planning and Personnel development ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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