Arbeitspapier
Education and Regional Job Creation by the Self-Employed: The English North-South Divide
Using decomposition analysis, the paper investigates the reasons why Northern England has less but higher performing self-employed businesses than the South. It finds the causes are mainly structural differences rather than due to regional variation in people's characteristics. The paper also unearths a regional dimension behind the impact of education on entrepreneurial job creation. It finds that, in the less developed North, education boosts self-employment job creation by enhancing performance per venture (quality). In the South, it reduces it by having no effect on quality alongside a negative effect on the number of people who become self-employed (quantity).
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy ; No. 0706
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Labor Demand
Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
- Subject
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Self-employment
job creation
North-South divide
decomposition
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Burke, Andrew E.
FitzRoy, Felix R.
Nolan, Michael A.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Max Planck Institute of Economics
- (where)
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Jena
- (when)
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2006
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Burke, Andrew E.
- FitzRoy, Felix R.
- Nolan, Michael A.
- Max Planck Institute of Economics
Time of origin
- 2006
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