one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …

When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors … employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because pull factors provide the rationale for their decision. However, a data set …

Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of … balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates entrepreneurship. Yet, none of these considers individual …

Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We identify the characteristics of the … entrepreneurs fare in the labor market compared to natives. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance … spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …

-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …

likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated … the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence …