DP5705 Entrepreneurship in China and Russia Compared

Author(s):	Simeon Djankov, Yingyi Qian, Gérard Roland, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Publication Date:	June 2006
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Programme Areas:	Institutions and Economic Performance
Link to this Page:	cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=5705

We compare results from a pilot study on entrepreneurship in China and Russia. Compared to non-entrepreneurs, Russian and Chinese entrepreneurs have more entrepreneurs in their family and among childhood friends, value work more relative to leisure and have higher wealth ambitions. Russian entrepreneurs have a better educational background and their parents were more likely to have been members of the communist party but Chinese entrepreneurs are more risk-taking and greedy and have more entrepreneurs among their childhood friends.