Help from the past—coworker ties and entry wages after self-employment

Emma Lappi ()
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Emma Lappi: Center for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSe), Jönköping International Business School

Small Business Economics, 2023, vol. 60, issue 3, No 15, 1196 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper empirically estimates how referrals mitigate the risk associated with hiring formerly self-employed individuals. We do this by comparing the networks and entry wages for two groups of new hires: those who exit self-employment to become wage-employed and those who change employers as wage employees, i.e., job changers. Referrals are defined as coworker ties through which the new hire and an incumbent worker share a common employment history before their current employment. We use longitudinal Swedish register-based data to evaluate the entry wages of the two groups of new hires for the years between 2010 and 2013. The results show that having coworker ties is associated with 2.9% higher entry wages and that this network premium is uniform across the formerly self-employed and job changers. However, the new hires from self-employment have consistently lower entry wages than the job changers, even if the exiting self-employed have coworker ties.

Keywords: Referrals; Network; Self-employment; Entry wages; Labor mobility; Exit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J30 J49 J62 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/s11187-022-00652-3

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