Who skims the cream of the Italian graduate crop? Wage-employment versus self-employment

Carolina Castagnetti and Luisa Rosti ()
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Luisa Rosti: Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods, University of Pavia

No 89, Quaderni di Dipartimento from University of Pavia, Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods

Abstract: This paper tests whether the academic achievement is a significant determinant of the employment status in the Italian labor market: are the new entrepreneurs selected from the top or bottom end of the graduates ability distribution? Is the cream of the graduate crop pulled into selfemployment by the higher expected earnings or are the individuals with lower degree score pushed into entrepreneurship by poor alternatives? Our data show a strong negative relation between academic achievement and self-employment status, i.e. we assess the skimming of the best graduates into wage and salary work.

JEL-codes: J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2009-01
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Journal Article: Who skims the cream of the Italian graduate crop? Wage employment versus self-employment (2011)
Working Paper: Who skims the cream of the Italian graduate crop? Wage-employment versus self-employment (2008)
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