through these stages. Data are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European …

Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … be expected and respect. Furthermore, our results imply that entrepreneurship is associated with hard work, high incomes …

models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …

entrepreneurial development in Russia. We utilize Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001 and 2002 to investigate … the effects of the weak institutional environment in Russia on entrepreneurship, comparing it first with all available GEM …’s institutional environment is important to explain its relatively low levels of entrepreneurship development, where the latter is …

, there has been little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques … 2001. We find strong evidence that access to external finance (loans) increases the growth of both employment and sales …. Taxes appear to constrain growth. There is some evidence that entrepreneurial skills increase growth, but only weak evidence …

. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we investigate the effects of the weak …

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …