The Entrepreneurial Ladder and its Determinants

Peter van der Zwan (), Roy Thurik and Isabel Grilo ()
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Peter van der Zwan: CASBEC, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, and EIM, Zoetermeer
Isabel Grilo: DG Enterprise, European Commission, GREMARS, Université de Lille 3, and CORE, Université Cath. de Louvain

No 06-103/3, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i.e., as an entrepreneurial ladder. Five levels are distinguished using nearly 12,000 observations from the 2004 “Flash Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25 European Union member states and the United States. The most surprising of the many results is that perception of lack of financial support is no obstacle for moving to a higher entrepreneurial engagement level whereas perceived administrative complexity is a significant obstacle. We also show that the effect of age on the probability of moving forward in the entrepreneurial process becomes negative after a certain age implying that if entrepreneurial engagements are not taken early enough in life they may well never be taken.

This discussion paper has resulted in a publication in 'Applied Economics' : vol. 42, iss. 17, pp. 2183-91.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; determinants; nascent entrepreneurship; ordered multinomial logit; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H10 J23 L26 M13 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-11-22, Revised 2007-11-14
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