TY - RPRT AU - Gries, Thomas AU - Jungblut, Stefan AU - Naudé, Wim TI - The Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve PY - 2016/Feb/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 9744 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9744 AB - 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. KW - labor market matching KW - start-ups KW - entrepreneurship ER -