Entrepreneurship In the EU: To Wish and Not To Be
This paper uses survey data from the 15 EU Member States and the U.S. to establish the effect of demographic and other variables on latent and actual entrepreneurship. The most striking result is the lack of explanatory power of the perception of lack of available financial support in the latent entrepreneurship equation.
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