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| Title: | | Entrepreneurship: origins and returns  |
| Authors: | | Berglann, Helge Moen, Espen R. Røed, Knut Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 4250 |
| Abstract: | | We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find that entrepreneurship tends to be profitable. It also raises income uncertainty, but the most successful quartile gains much more than the least successful quartile loses. Key determinants of the decision to become an entrepreneur are occupational qualifications, family resources, gender, and work environments. Individual unemployment encourages, while aggregate unemployment discourages entrepreneurship. |
| Subjects: | | Entrepreneurship self-employment spin-offs |
| JEL: | | L26 M13 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090703129 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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