opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …

self-employment rates. With representative German data and unconditional quantile regression analysis we show that an …

promoting: i) micro-entrepreneurship in Brazil; and ii) the formalisation of entrepreneurs. Regarding the promotion of micro-entrepreneurship …

credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on …

performance are more likely driven by differences in risk aversion or preferences for entrepreneurship rather than by skill. …

Young firms are known to grow at a faster rate than incumbents. With administrative firm data from Germany, we show …

's own life or work situation (which is not optimism). Our data highlight the importance of measuring optimism correctly …

comprehensive administrative data on business applications, we analyze the spatial disparity in the creation of business ideas and …