Entrepreneurship and its Determinants in a Cross-Country Setting

Andreas Freytag () and Roy Thurik

Chapter Chapter 8 in Entrepreneurship and Culture, 2010, pp 157-170 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The relative stability of differences in entrepreneurial activity across countries suggests that other than economic factors are at play. The present paper offers some new thoughts about the determinants of entrepreneurial attitudes and activities by testing the relationship between institutional variables and cross-country differences in the preferences for self-employment as well as in actual self-employment. Data of the 25 member states of the European Union as well as the US are used. The results show that country specific (cultural) variables seem to explain the preference for entrepreneurship, but cannot explain actual entrepreneurship.

Keywords: Actual Entrepreneurship; Economic Freedom; Occupational Choice; Global Entrepreneurship Monitor; Country Dummy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87910-7_8

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