UNSPECIFIED (2001) Latent entrepreneurship across nations. In: 15th Annual Congress of the European-Economic-Association, BOLZANO, ITALY, AUG 30-SEP 02, 2000. Published in: EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, 45 (4-6). pp. 680-691. ISSN 0014-2921.

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Abstract

The paper studies latent entrepreneurship across nations. There are three main findings. First, large numbers of people in the industrial countries say they would prefer to be self-employed. Top of the international ranking of entrepreneurial spirit come Poland (with 80% saying so), Portugal and the USA; bottom of the table come Norway (with 27% saying so), Denmark and Russia. Second, for individuals the probability of preferring to be self-employed is strongly decreasing with age, while the probability of bring self-employed is strongly increasing with age. Third, we show that self-employed individuals have noticeably higher job satisfaction than the employed, so people's expressed wish to run their business cannot easily be written off as mistaken. We speculate on why so much entrepreneurial spirit lies dormant. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Conference Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Journal or Publication Title:	EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
ISSN:	0014-2921
Official Date:	May 2001
Dates:	Date Event May 2001 UNSPECIFIED
Volume:	45
Number:	4-6
Number of Pages:	12
Page Range:	pp. 680-691
Publication Status:	Published
Title of Event:	15th Annual Congress of the European-Economic-Association
Location of Event:	BOLZANO, ITALY
Date(s) of Event:	AUG 30-SEP 02, 2000

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