Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21157 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 303
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three times in life in 1957, 1983 and 1993. The self-employment probability equals 155 and peaks between ages 24 and 26. Duration analysis shows that social capital is the most important resource for self-employment.
Subjects: 
Self-employment
social capital
human capital
event history
JEL: 
J23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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