Experience, Education, and Entrepreneurial Success: A View from Bangladesh

Mahfuza Khatun

Journal of Social and Development Sciences, 2015, vol. 6, issue 4, 71-81

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of education on the age earnings profiles of self-employed Bangladeshi men, using data from a survey carried out by the first author in 2010. Its results strongly support the perception that educational attainment and on-the-job experience are strongly complementary rather than mutually substitutable in increasing the likelihood of achieving a high income level. Yet the high degree of earnings heterogeneity among well-educated respondents in the sample also indicates that academic excellence is a catalyst but not a guarantor for entrepreneurial success, and that levels of education that are formally equivalent may nevertheless have very different implications for the likelihood of prosperity in business.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.22610/jsds.v6i4.861

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