Does labor diversity promote entrepreneurship?

Marianna Marino, Pierpaolo Parrotta and Dario Pozzoli

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 116, issue 1, 15-19

Abstract: We find evidence that workforce educational diversity promotes entrepreneurial behavior of employees as well as the formation of new firms, whereas diversity in demographics hinders transitions to self-employment. Ethnic diversity favors entrepreneurship in financial and business services.

Keywords: Labor diversity; Entrepreneurship; Transitions to self-employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C26 J24 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.01.004

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