IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Digital Entrepreneurship' in: Liebregts, W., van den Heuvel, WJ., van den Born, A. (eds), Data Science for Entrepreneurship. Classroom Companion: Business. Springer, Cham, 2023, 279-303

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13634

Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda

Moussa Blimpo, Todd Pugatch

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 149, 102583

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13443

Initial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Employment and Hours of Self-Employed Coupled and Single Workers by Gender and Parental Status

Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia

published as 'Impacts of COVID-19 on the Self-employed' in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 58, 741–768

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13436

Entrepreneurial Recovery from COVID-19: Decentralization, Democratization, Demand, Distribution, and Demography

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13414

The Effects of Non-Compete Agreements on Different Types of Self-Employment: Evidence from Massachusetts and Utah

Ege Can, Frank M. Fossen

revised version published as 'The Enforceability of Non-Compete Agreements and Different Types of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Utah and Massachusetts' in: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2022, 11 (2/3), 223-252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13390

Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?

Massimo Anelli, Gaetano Basso, Giuseppe Ippedico, Giovanni Peri

published as 'Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (2), 218–252

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13373

Allocating Subsidies for Private Investments to Maximize Jobs Impacts

David A. Robalino, Jose M. Romero, Ian Walker

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13311

The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey

Robert W. Fairlie

published as 'The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: Evidence from the first three months after widespread social-distancing restrictions' in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2020, 29 (4), 727-740

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13209

Entrepreneurship among Low-, Mid- and High-Income Workers in South America: A Fuzzy-Set Analysis

Jorge Velilla, José Alberto Molina, Raquel Ortega

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13187

The Perceived Well-Being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment

Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev, Olga Popova

published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57(4), 1819-1836

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13180

2D:4D and Self-Employment Using SOEP Data: A Replication Study

Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber Almenberg

revised version published in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2022, 46 (1), 21-43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13173

Tenancy by the Entirety and the Value of Wealth Insurance for Entrepreneurs

Jeffrey Traczynski

published in: Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting, 2020, 5 (2), 337 - 359

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13130

Exposure to Transit Migration, Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship

Nicolas Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Sergei Guriev

revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 158, 102899

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12943

Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Seema Jayachandran

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12878

Selection and Absolute Advantage in Farming and Entrepreneurship

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francesco Amodio, Markus Poschke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12848

Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: A Pan-African RCT

Fernando Vega-Redondo, Paolo Pin, Diego Ubfal, Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil, Charles Brummitt, Gaia Rubera, Dirk Hovy, Tommaso Fornaciari

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12802

Endogenous Hours and the Wealth of Entrepreneurs

Felix Wellschmied, Emircan Yurdagul

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2021, 39, 79-99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12777

Training, Human Capital, and Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurial Performance

Zuzana Brixiova, Thierry Kangoye, Mona Said

published in: Economic Modelling, 2020, 85, 367-380

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12761

Former Communist Party Membership and Present-Day Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe

Artjoms Ivlevs, Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova

published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57 (4), 1783-1800

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12742

What Makes an Employer?

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

revised version published as 'Personality characteristics and the decision to hire' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2022, 31 (3), 736-761

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12690

Catching up or Lagging Behind? The Long-Term Business and Innovation Potential of Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Martin Weissenberger

published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (10), 1-14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12678

Three Varieties of Africa’s Industrial Future

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12607

Entrepreneurial Persistence beyond Survival: Measurement and Determinants

Marco Caliendo, Maximilian Göthner, Martin Weißenberger

published in: Journal of Small Business Management, 2020, 58 (3), 617-647.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12602

The Decline in Entrepreneurship in the West: Is Complexity Ossifying the Economy?

Wim Naudé

published as ' From the entrepreneurial to the ossified economy' in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2022, 46 (1), 105 - 131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12499

Entrepreneurship over the Business Cycle in the United States: A Decomposition

Frank M. Fossen

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, 1837-1855

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12445

Who Gains from Active Learning in Higher Education?

Giulio Bosio, Federica Origo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12367

Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries

Markus Poschke

published online in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 12 September 2024, 103684

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12336

Types of Institutions and Well-Being of Self-Employed and Paid Employees in Europe

Michael Fritsch, Alina Sorgner, Michael Wyrwich

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 56, 877–901

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12325

The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Diego Ubfal, Irani Arraiz, Diether Beuermann, Michael Frese, Alessandro Maffioli, Daniel Verch

published in: World Development, 2022, 152, 105787

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12141

The Past and Future of Manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe: Ready for Industry 4.0?

Wim Naudé, Aleksander Surdej, Martin Cameron

published as 'Ready for Industry 4.0? The Case of Central and Eastern Europe' in: Mohammad Dastbaz, Peter Cochrane (eds.), Industry 4.0 and Engineering for the Future, Springer International, 2019, 153-175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12057

Risk Aversion and Entrepreneurship: New Evidence Exploiting Exposure to Massive Earthquakes in Italy

Guido de Blasio, Maria De Paola, Samuele Poy, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, 295-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12035

Firm Size and Innovation in the Service Sector

David Audretsch, Marian Hafenstein, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Schiersch

published as 'Microfirms and innovation in the service sector' in: Small Business Economics, 2020, 55 (4), 997-1018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11941

Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs: A New Narrative for African Manufacturing

Wim Naudé

published in: Journal of International Affairs, 2019, 72 (1), 143 - 158