Journal of Economic Modeling Research

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This study considers the subject of social capital measurement and its problems. Because of the social capital is the qualitative subject, therefore its measurement have special problems, and there is no the same approach in this matter. These problems are in both of international and national level. For the reason, there are different methods to measure social capital. These methods have caused their results to be different and sometimes conflict. These differences are very high, such that the correlation between these indexes is sometime zero, negative and positive.

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The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of physical capital, human capital and social capital on the entrepreneurship level of individuals, using structural equations model and order logit model in Shahid Salimi industrial town of Tabriz in 2016. The data were collected form 121 economic activist who were randomly selected form the population. The empirical results show that human capital (level of education) and physical capital have negative and significant impact on the entrepreneurship level of individuals. But, human capital (level of experience) and social capital have positive and significant impact on the entrepreneurship level of individuals. In addition, attitudes, self-efficacy and expected entrepreneurial benefit have positive and significant effects on the entrepreneurship level of individuals.