Learning Entrepreneurship as an Employee

Yoko Asuyama

Journal of Human Capital, 2026, vol. 20, issue 2, 313 - 346

Abstract: This study compares entrepreneurs’ and employees’ tasks and explores the relationship between employees’ opportunities to learn entrepreneurs’ tasks and entrepreneurship. Analysis of comprehensive task information from 31 countries reveals that entrepreneurs perform more autonomous, diverse, financial, and managerial tasks and fewer compiling tasks than employees. Worker-level analysis across 23 countries shows that employees’ greater learning opportunities for entrepreneurs’ tasks—combining task variety and entrepreneur-like task content—increase entrepreneurship entry. Because entry increases for both high- and low-performance entrepreneurs, learning opportunities do not have significant effects on employment scale or innovativeness of entrepreneurs’ businesses on average.

Date: 2026
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