SELECTION INTO ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SELF-EMPLOYMENT

Yona Rubinstein and Ross Levine ()

No 15143, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that differentiates between entrepreneurs and other self-employed to address puzzling gaps that have emerged between theory and evidence on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts—and the data confirm—that entrepreneurs are positively selected on highly-remunerated cognitive and non-cognitive human capital skills, but other self-employed are negatively selected on those same abilities; entrepreneurs are positively selected on collateral, but other self-employed are not; and entrepreneurship is procyclical, but self-employment is countercyclical.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; Human capital; Occupational choice; Corporate finance; Business cycles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 G32 J24 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-08
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Working Paper: Selection into entrepreneurship and self-employment (2020)
Working Paper: Selection into entrepreneurship and self-employment (2020)
Working Paper: Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment (2018)
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