%0 Report %A Gries, Thomas %A Jungblut, Stefan %A Naudé, Wim %T The Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve %D 2016 %8 2016 Feb %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 9744 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9744 %X We propose that the rate of creation and failure of start-up firms can be modelled as a search and matching process, following labor market matching models. Setting out an endogenous growth model with entrepreneurship we derive a Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve, through which we illustrate that entrepreneurial start-ups are the outcome of the efficiency with which entrepreneurial abilities are matched with business opportunities. The Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve is a potentially useful analytical tool to add to the formalization of the economics of entrepreneurship, and we mention a number of extentions and applications. %K labor market matching %K start-ups %K entrepreneurship