Empirical studies show low pecuniary returns of switching from wage employment to entrepreneurship. We reconsider the … transfers is used as an exclusion restriction to identify causal effects. The model is estimated on data covering the whole … indicate that the average returns to entrepreneurship are significantly negative for individuals entering entrepreneurship …

Empirical studies show low pecuniary returns of switching from wage employment to entrepreneurship. We reconsider the … transfers is used as an exclusion restriction to identify causal effects. The model is estimated on data covering the whole … indicate that the average returns to entrepreneurship are significantly negative for individuals entering entrepreneurship …

employees towards becoming entrepreneurs: exit from the current firm and entry into entrepreneurship. In other words, we study … identification strategy based on comparisons of same-gender matches of bosses and employees, using rich register data for Denmark. We … show that same-gender entrepreneurial bosses have a great impact on employees' future entrepreneurship choices, especially …

Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The … success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at … background and neighborhood effects as determinants of entrepreneurship, by estimating sibling correlations in entrepreneurship …

We assess the broad importance of family and community background for entrepreneurship outcomes. We go beyond … traditional, intergenerational associations by estimating sibling correlations in unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship … using register data from Sweden. Sibling correlations range from 20% to 50%. They are consistently higher for more committed …

This meta-analytical review of empirical studies of the impact of schooling on entrepreneurship selection and … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

by lack of data. The key contribution of this article is that the authors are able—due to their comprehensive data set …