Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Do They Earn More?

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Immigrant entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the survey of business owners 2007 & 2012 (2020, unknown): “First, at a macro level, entrepreneurship exhibits a U-shaped pattern with respect to the full distribution of skills, disproportionately occurring at the upper and lower tails of the distribution (Levine and Rubinstein, 2017; Poschke, 2013).”
Solo Self-Employment and Alternative Work Arrangements: A Cross-Country Perspective on the Changing Composition of Jobs (2020, background): “A partial exception is Levine and Rubinstein (2017), who acknowledge the difference between self-employment in incorporated and in unincorporated enterprises but do not consider the demarcation between solo self-employed and self-employed with employees.”