Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/223651 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13209
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper studies the reasons underlying the entrepreneurial decisions of low-, middle-, and high-income workers in South America. Using data from the GEM APS for the period 2005-2017, we apply fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis, allowing us to find causal links in the form of necessary conditions linked to entrepreneurship in the sample countries. Results show some differences in the conditions that lead individuals to become entrepreneurs, depending on income levels and gender. However, peer effects, the social perception of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial skills, and formal education seem decisive in different contexts, although they may operate in both complementary and substitutive ways. The same combination of conditions does not appear to work for all the countries, even when taking into account the gender and income level of workers.
Subjects: 
South America
entrepreneurship
income
fsQCA
GEM data
JEL: 
L26
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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