By considering entrepreneurs who hire employees – employers – and entrepreneurs without personnel – own-account workers – as related but distinct groups within entrepreneurship, this work analyzes the roles of different factors in entrepreneurship survival from a new perspective:...

This paper investigates the determinants of the transitions from unemployment to paid employment, own-account work, and employership in Europe, with special focus on the role of some macroeconomic variables. Our results suggest that the coexistence of recession periods, start-up incentives, and...