Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35493 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4250
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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