COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PEOPLE'S OPINIONS ABOUT THE CAREER AND STATUS OF ENTREPRENEURS

The article is devoted to the actual problem of studying the opinions of the adult population about the role of entrepreneurs in the socio-economic life of modern countries. The purpose of the study is to assess people's opinions about whether entrepreneurship is a good career choice, as well as whether entrepreneurs have a high social status. The research included five stages. As a starting point, the study used the results of surveys conducted in 59 countries during the implementation of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring project. The study solved the problems of assessing the values of indicators that characterize the proportion of men and women who consider entrepreneurship a good career, as well as highly evaluating the social status of entrepreneurs, in the total number of relevant gender strata. In addition, the relationships that characterize the prevailing opinions of men and women in the countries under consideration were determined. The study was based on the development of economic and mathematical models describing the opinions of women and men about the entrepreneurial career and high social status of entrepreneurs. We performed a simulation of the distribution of the six indicators in 59 countries. In the countries under review, almost two-thirds of people have a positive attitude to entrepreneurial careers and highly assess the social status of entrepreneurs. The study showed that in different countries, the values of specific indicators for women and men do not differ very significantly, that is, in most of them there is no gender gap. In 2018, there were significant differences in the values of the six indicators considered by country. Countries with the highest and lowest values of the six indicators were identified. The work included a comparison of the values of six indicators for Russia and foreign countries.