Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs …

prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very … similar in terms of risk taking preferences and network size. Want-to-be entrepreneurs however suffer from credit constraints …

We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership … cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local … absence of a network. Thus, the formation of the network is inefficient as entrepreneurs incur networking costs for purely …

inspection of benefit office practices to show that there is good reason to investigate this issue in Hungary. We then report on …

but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …