Entrepreneurship: origins and returns

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4250

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Entrepreneurship ; New Firms; Startups
• Subject: Entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; spin-offs ; Unternehmer ; Selbstständige ; Betriebsaufspaltung ; Einkommen ; Erfolgsfaktor ; Norwegen

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Berglann, Helge ; Moen, Espen R. ; Røed, Knut ; Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35493
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090703129
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET