representative data from the April 2020 CPS - the first month fully capturing early effects. The number of active business owners in …

childhood and adolescence, and examining their relationship to self-employment propensity in adulthood. Using data from the … Young Finns Study linked to the Finnish Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data and the Longitudinal Population Census of … also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our … employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

childhood and adolescence, and examining their relationship to self-employment propensity in adulthood. Using data from the … Young Finns Study linked to the Finnish Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data and the Longitudinal Population Census of … also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

Emerging literature shows that spatial differences in entrepreneurship tend to persist over longer periods of time. A … regional culture and a supporting environment in favor of entrepreneurship that particularly involves social capital. This … chapter summarizes the available empirical evidence on the regional persistence of entrepreneurship and elaborates in detail …

operational definition of opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship using readily available nationally representative data. We …A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter …-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship …

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our … employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …

We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this … measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship … a regional culture of entrepreneurship is an important resource for regional growth. …