Time allocation by the self-employed: the determinants of the number of working hours in start-ups

Martin Carree and Ingrid Verheul ()

Applied Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 16, issue 15, 1511-1515

Abstract: This article examines determinants of working hours by self-employed, explicitly discriminating between preference and productivity effects. A simple model of working hours is derived, not requiring expected profit data. The model is estimated using data from a Dutch survey of 1350 start-ups. Outsourcing and number of employees appear related to both preference and productivity. The model has out-of-sample predictive power for the number of working hours.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850701580542

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