IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2495

Changing Patterns of Ethnic Minority Self-Employment in Britain: Evidence from Census Microdata

revised version published as 'Patterns of Ethnic Self-Employment in Time and Space: Evidence from British Census Microdata' in: Small Business Economics, 2010, 34 (3), 323-338

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2475

Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms’ Entry, Survival and Growth

Enrico Santarelli, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2007, 16(3), 455-488

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2473

On Defining and Measuring the Informal Sector

Andrew Henley, Reza Arabsheibani, Francisco G. Carneiro

published in: World Development, 2009, 37(5), 992-1003

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2422

Mexican-Hispanic Self-Employment Entry: The Role of Business Start-Up Constraints

Magnus Lofstrom, Chunbei Wang

published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2007, 613 (1), 32-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2382

The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start

Simon C. Parker, Mirjam C. van Praag

published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2011, 27 (1), 31-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2307

What Makes a Die-Hard Entrepreneur? Beyond the ‘Employee or Entrepreneur’ Dichotomy

Andrew Burke, Felix FitzRoy, Michael A. Nolan

published in: Small Business Economics 2008, 31, 93 - 115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2264

The Jack-of-All-Trades Entrepreneur: Innate Talent or Acquired Skill?

Olmo Silva

published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 97 (2), 118-123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2201

Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited

Robert W. Fairlie, Harry A. Krashinsky

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (2), 279-306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2168

Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey

Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 32 (2), 153-167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2164

Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice: Empirical Evidence from Germany

Frank M. Fossen, Viktor Steiner

revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 36 (3), 487-513

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2161

Institutions, Networks and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: An Exploration

Ruta Aidis, Saul Estrin

published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2008, 23 (6), 656-672

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2101

Hispanic Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership

Magnus Lofstrom, Chunbei Wang

substantially revised version published as 'Mexican- American Self-Employment : A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 197 - 227

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2071

A Selection-Based Theory of the Transition from Employment to Entrepreneurship: The Role of Employer Size

Simon C. Parker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2039

Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Robert W. Fairlie, Christopher Woodruff

published in: G. Borjas (ed.), Mexican Immigration in the United States, NBER-C, 2007, 123-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1910

Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1756

Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development: Growth Dynamics with Two Elites