The present study aims at explaining female and male entrepreneurship from a country perspective. Explanatory variables … are derived from three streams of literature, including the literature on the determinants of entrepreneurship in general …, on female labor force participation, and on female entrepreneurship. To test hypotheses we make use of Global …

evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who they are, what makes them different, and …

This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of … entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not … U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away from simple measures of entrepreneurship across countries …

regulation we use, we always find a detrimental effect of regulation on entrepreneurship. While women are overall less likely to … start new businesses, in more regulated countries women are pulled into entrepreneurship not to pursue a business …

. -- strategic entrepreneurship ; multi-level analysis ; intellectual property protection ; growth aspirations …

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …

sector. However, these results are sensitive to the level of development. -- Entrepreneurship ; property rights ; access to …