Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9373

Lifting the Iron Curtain: School-Age Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions

Oliver Falck, Robert Gold, Stephan Heblich

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2017, 17 (5), 1111–1148,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9358

Entering and Leaving Self-Employment: A Panel Data Analysis for 12 Developing Countries

Yoon Y. Cho, David A. Robalino, Jose M. Romero

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9284

Migration, Entrepreneurship and Development: A Critical Review

Wim Naudé, Melissa Siegel, Katrin Marchand

published as 'Migration, entrepreneurship and development: critical questions' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2017, 6, Article 5 (2017)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9273

Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa: New Evidence from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye

published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2016, 5, 1- 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9155

Roads Leading to Self-Employment: Comparing Transgenerational Entrepreneurs and Self-Made Start-Ups

Boris F. Blumberg, Gerard A. Pfann

published in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2016, 40 (2), 335-357

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8981

The Rise of Female Entrepreneurs: New Evidence on Gender Differences in Liquidity Constraints

Robert M. Sauer, Tanya Wilson

published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 86, 73-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8887

Court-ship, Kinship and Business: A Study on the Interaction between the Formal and the Informal Institutions and Its Effect on Entrepreneurship

Tanika Chakraborty, Anirban Mukherjee, Sarani Saha

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2015, 4, 7 (2015)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8818

Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?

Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alina Sorgner

published in: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2015, 67 (2), 307-333

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8817

Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups

Marco Caliendo, Jens Hogenacker, Steffen Künn, Frank Wießner

published in: Small Business Economics, 45(1), 2015, 165-190

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8816

Public Health Insurance and Entry into Self-Employment

Frank M. Fossen, Johannes König

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (3), 647-669

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8777

Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations

David P. Varady, Reinout Kleinhans, Maarten van Ham

published as 'The Potential of Community Entrepreneurship for Neighbourhood Revitalization in the United Kingdom and the United States' in: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 2015, 9 (3), 253-276.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8652

The Continued Search for the Solow Residual: The Role of National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Zoltan J. Acs, Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz, László Szerb

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8651

Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?

Alina Sorgner, Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (2), 251–272

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8564

Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa: Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity

Paula Nagler, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8524

Labor Productivity in Rural African Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from the LSMS-ISA

Paula Nagler, Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8367

Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Robert W. Fairlie, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7 (2), 125 - 161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8331

Local Agglomeration, Entrepreneurship and the Great Recession: Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts

Giorgio Brunello, Monica Langella

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics; 2016, 58, 104 - 114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8295

Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Nkechi S. Owoo, Wim Naudé

published as 'Spatial proximity and firm performance: evidence from non-farm rural enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria' in: Regional Studies, 2016, 51 (5), 688–700

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8273

By Choice and by Necessity: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment in the Developing World

David N. Margolis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8237

Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance

Laura Rosendahl Huber, Randolph Sloof, Mirjam C. van Praag

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8219

Necessity Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy

Jörn Block, Karsten Kohn, Danny Miller, Katrin Ullrich

published in: Small Business Economics, 2015, 44 (1), 37-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8195

Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique

Catia Batista, Tara McIndoe Calder, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79, 797–821.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8192

Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Mthuli Ncube, Zorobabel Bicaba

revised version published in: World Development, 2015, 67 (3), 11 - 26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8186

Entrepreneurial Couples

Michael S. Dahl, Mirjam C. van Praag, Peter Thompson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8186

Entrepreneurial Couples

Michael S. Dahl, Mirjam C. van Praag, Peter Thompson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8148

Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap

Marco Vivarelli

published in: Economic Change and Restructuring , 2016, 49, 159-193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8111

Is Religion Associated with Entrepreneurial Activity?

Andrew Henley

published as 'Does Religion Influence Entrepreneurial Behaviour?' in: International Small Business Journal, 2017, 35 (5), 597 - 617

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8046

Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar

Christophe Jalil Nordman, Julia Vaillant

Non-technical version published as 'Entreprenariat informel et genre à Madagascar : le rôle des normes de solidarité et des responsabilités domestiques dans les écarts de performances' in: Mondes en Développement, 2014, 42 (2), 166, 59-72

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8008

Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants

Paula Nagler, Wim Naudé

published as 'Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural sub-Saharan Africa: New empirical evidence' in: Food Policy, 2017, 67, 175-191

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7991

The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology

Markus Poschke

published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2018, 10 (3), 1-41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7976

A Tale of Minorities: Evidence on Religious Ethics and Entrepreneurship from Swiss Census Data

Luca Nunziata, Lorenzo Rocco

substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21 (2), 189-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7889

Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Jolanda Hessels, Udo Brixy, Wim Naudé, Thomas Gries

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7796

Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?

Seçil Hülya Danakol, Saul Estrin, Paul Reynolds, Utz Weitzel

published as 'Foreign direct investment via M&A and domestic entrepreneurship: blessing or curse?' in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 48 (3), 599 - 612

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7795

Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon

Nora Stel, Wim Naudé

published as 'Public–Private Entanglement’: Entrepreneurship in Lebanon’s Hybrid Political Order' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52 (2), 254–268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7781

Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Catia Batista, Janis Umblijs

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7757

The Decision to Become an Entrepreneur and the Firm Size Distribution: A Unifying Framework for Policy Analysis

Markus Poschke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7669

Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Robert W. Fairlie, Magnus Lofstrom

published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1B, Elsevier, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7653

The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Max Nathan

published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:4

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7606

Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy

Benedikt Herrmann, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7553

Entrepreneurship and the Business Environment in Africa: An Application to Ethiopia

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Mthuli Ncube

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7547

'Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?' The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing across Countries

Wim Naudé, José Ernesto Amorós, Oscar Cristi

published as 'Should We Romanticize Penniless Entrepreneurs?: Startups and Human Wellbeing across Countries' in: Academy of Management Proceedings, 2012, 1, 15914

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7547

'Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?' The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing across Countries

Wim Naudé, José Ernesto Amorós, Oscar Cristi

published as 'Should We Romanticize Penniless Entrepreneurs?: Startups and Human Wellbeing across Countries' in: Academy of Management Proceedings, 2012, 1, 15914

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7544

Do SBA Loans Create Jobs?

J. David Brown, John S. Earle

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7543

Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Wim Naudé, Adam Szirmai, Alejandro Lavopa

published as 'Industrialisation and Technological Change in the BRICS: The Role of Foreign and Domestic Investment' in: W. Naudé, A. Szirmai, and N. Haraguch (eds.), Structural Change and Industrial Development in the BRICS, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7507

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Wim Naudé

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7467

Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland

Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Thierry Kangoye

published in: M. A. Malo and D. Sciulli (eds.), Disadvantaged Workers: Empirical Evidence and Labour Policies, AIEL Series in Labour Economics, Springer, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7459

Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti

published in: Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2, 1-48, December 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7439

Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco

Manuela Angelucci, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman

substantially revised version published as "Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7 (1), 151-182

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7436

Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries

Francesco Quatraro, Marco Vivarelli

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 30, 277–305

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7417

Homeownership and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Commitment and Mortgage Debt

Philippe Bracke, Christian Hilber, Olmo Silva

heavily revised version published as 'Mortgage debt and entrepreneurship' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 103, 52 - 66