What makes a Die-Hard Entrepreneur? Trying, or Persisting in, Self-Employment

Arbeitspapier

The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment. We outline an econometric methodology to account for this approach and find that it is superior to probit/logit models which have dominated the literature. While our results indicate that this existing literature is good at explaining an individual's propensity to try self-employment, we find that entrepreneurial persistence is determined by a different model and unearth some new insights into the roles of early career experience, finance, role models, gender and the unemployment push effect.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy ; No. 2305

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities ; Labor Demand
• Thema: Self-employment ; entrepreneurial persistence ; count data ; Unternehmer ; Selbstständige ; Unternehmensentwicklung ; Zähldatenmodell ; Erwerbsverlauf ; Schätzung ; Großbritannien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Burke, Andrew E. ; FitzRoy, Felix R. ; Nolan, Michael A.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (wo): Jena
• (wann): 2005

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20013
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ