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| Title: | | Education and regional job creation by the elf-employed: the English North-South divide  |
| Authors: | | Burke, Andrew E. FitzRoy, Felix R. Nolan, Michael A. |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Papers on entrepreneurship, growth and public policy 0706 |
| Abstract: | | Using decomposition analysis, the paper investigates the reasons why Northern England has less but higher performing self-employed businesses than the South. It finds the causes are mainly structural differences rather than due to regional variation in people's characteristics. The paper also unearths a regional dimension behind the impact of education on entrepreneurial job creation. It finds that, in the less developed North, education boosts self-employment job creation by enhancing performance per venture (quality). In the South, it reduces it by having no effect on quality alongside a negative effect on the number of people who become self-employed (quantity). |
| Subjects: | | Self-employment job creation North-South divide decomposition |
| JEL: | | J23 R11 R23 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Discussion Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy, MPI für Ökonomik
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