%0 Report %A Poschke, Markus %T "Entrepreneurs out of Necessity": A Snapshot %D 2010 %8 2010 Apr %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 4893 %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4893 %X "Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across countries. They tend to have low education, run smaller firms, expect their firms to grow less, but are likely to stay in the market. This evidence is a challenge for existing theories of heterogeneous firms. %K entrepreneurship %K firm size