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Well-being effects of self-employment: A spatial inquiry
Our paper presents an empirical analysis of entrepreneurial well-being using a large-scale longitudinal household survey from the UK that tracks almost 50,000 individuals across seven waves over the period 2009-2017, as well as a number of exploratory case studies. We contribute to the existing literature by investigating how entrepreneurial well-being varies across locations along the urban-rural continuum, and across wealthy-deprived neighbourhoods. We use a Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM) approach to compare the well-being outcomes of individuals who switch into self-employment from waged employment, and show that entrepreneurial well-being, in the form of job satisfaction, is significantly higher for those living in semi-urban locations, relative to those living in urban and rural locations. We argue that semi-urban locations provide an optimal combination of ease of doing business and quality of life. Our results also show that individuals in wealthy neighbourhoods who switch into self-employment experience higher job satisfaction than otherwise comparable individuals living in materially deprived neighbourhoods, although the latter experience greater levels of life satisfaction following the switch.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 1243
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Health Insurance, Public and Private
Entrepreneurship
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Household Analysis: General
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
- Subject
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Entrepreneurship
Well-being
Self-employment
Urban-rural
Neighbourhood effects
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Abreu, Maria
Öner, Özge
Brouwer, Aleid Elizabeth
van Leeuwen, Eveline
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
- (where)
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Stockholm
- (when)
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2018
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Abreu, Maria
- Öner, Özge
- Brouwer, Aleid Elizabeth
- van Leeuwen, Eveline
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Time of origin
- 2018
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