“…The "push" group of motivations refers to negative events that force a person to start a business: in that case, self-employment is perceived as a last resort where the individual falls victim from an exclusion out of the labor market (Feldman, et al, 1991) or from the inability of a country's economy to generate new jobs (Acs, et al, 2004). In such cases, the necessity to create a business may result from a wide, complex, variety of motives and circumstances (Tessier-Dargent and Fayolle, 2016;Rosa, Kodithuwakku, and Balunywa, 2006;Kodithuwakku and Rosa, 2002): chronic unemployment, below poverty wages in some sectors, minority discrimination (Serviere and Munoz, 2010;Light, 1979), redundancy, dissatisfaction in previous jobs, health problems, family financial difficulties, a need for flexibility due to greater family responsibilities, and the death of one or both parents who own a business (Chedli, 2016).…”