Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171002 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11018
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Empirical studies show low pecuniary returns of switching from wage employment to entrepreneurship. We reconsider the pecuniary gains of this switching by employing a two-stage procedure, where the randomness in the timing of inheritance transfers is used as an exclusion restriction to identify causal effects. The model is estimated on data covering the whole Norwegian population of individuals matched to the entire population of firms established in the period 2002-2011. The results indicate that the average returns to entrepreneurship are significantly negative for individuals entering entrepreneurship through self-employment and modest, but significantly positive, for incorporated startups.
Subjects: 
returns to entrepreneurship
earnings distribution
matched person-firm data
self-employment
random effects probit model
JEL: 
L26
C23
J31
G32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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