Discusses the increase in self‐employment in the UK over the past decade. Presents the results of a cross‐sectional, comparative, static analysis of the determinants of self‐employment using data on the UK counties. The results suggest that greater attention should be paid to...

The cultural approaches and the economic approaches advocated by mainstream neoclassical economists and new institutional economists fail to provide an adequate explanation of the differences between ethnic groups in the rate of business formation. These approaches provide only a partial...