01830nas a2200241   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260001200043653002900055653002100084653002900105653001600134653001000150653001500160653002000175100002700195245014100222856007900363300001000442490000600452520111600458022001401574       2022                            d  c03/202210aBayesian Model Averaging10aEntrepreneurship10aMacro-level Determinants10aUncertainty10aPanel10aEmployment10aSelf-employment1 aAna Rodriguez-Santiago00aRe-Evaluating the Relationship Between Economic Development and Self-Employment, at the Macro-Level: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach  uhttps://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/2022-02/ijimai7_3_2.pdf  a20-250 v73 aWe re-evaluate the relationship between stages of economic development and entrepreneurship, at the macro level. We first conduct a literature review of previous empirical research on cross-country determinants of entrepreneurship in order to put our contribution in perspective. To circumvent problems related to model uncertainty we use Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to evaluate the robustness of determinants of economic growth in a new dataset of 117 countries in the 2005-2019 period, allowing fixed effects and investigating the existence of heterogeneity allowing interactions of our focus variable with other regressors. Our empirical analysis then shows that the variation of self-employment rates across countries are mainly determined by variations in the unemployment, the stage of economic development and the variations in labor market frictions. When interactions are taken into account, results confirm that there is a differential effect of labor market frictions in countries with different levels of income. Frictions in labor market may encourage becoming self-employed in richer countries.  a1989-1660