point increase in entrepreneurship, equivalent to a 4% increase in the number of entrepreneurs. New entrants were more …

Platforms often have “crowds” of amateurs working on them as complementors, in other cases professional entrepreneurs …

the past decade. Our primary finding is that successful entrepreneurs are middle-aged, not young. The mean founder age for … successful entrepreneurs …

discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich … administrative data, we find that relaxing the social insurance mandate leads entrepreneurs to significantly reduce their …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner …

economy to aggregate shocks. In this paper we examine the characteristics of the individuals who become entrepreneurs when …

Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than … novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001 … entrepreneurs that hold a portfolio of overlapping ongoing firms perform the best, as do those that open as limited liability firm …