from own-account workers within the group of self-employed using data from the ECHP for 14 European countries. Our findings …

is an important element of life satisfaction. Fixed-effects regressions using German Socio-Economic Panel data (1984 …

claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …

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 …

biological parents. Moreover, we use comparable data on entrepreneurship for a large, representative sample of the Swedish …Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the … origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and …

an instrumental variables approachand a data set of more than ten thousand individuals from 27 European countries and the … the likelihood that he/she starts a business.Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice are discussed. …

estimate a bivariate random effects probit on a self-employmentsample drawn from register data. We find that those who are …