We study risk behavior of Danish self-employed entrepreneurs, whose income risk may be driven by both exogenous factors …

intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …

This paper evaluates the strength of social and economic forces that affect the pressure to emigrate 'out of Africa … out of Africa, especially in Ghana and Senegal. Signs of positive selection with respect to the level of education of … pressure to emigrate 'out of Africa' can be a long lasting phenomenon. …

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 …

entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second … observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to human capital than employees. We present an intuitive model showing that … for higher returns to human capital for entrepreneurs. …

contradicts existing theoretical hypotheses which predict that entrepreneurship is pro-cyclical or not cyclical. We discuss …

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 …