Does Labor Diversity Promote Entrepreneurship?

Marianna Marino, Pierpaolo Parrotta and Dario Pozzoli
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Marianna Marino: EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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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: Transitions to self-employment; Labor diversity; Entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Economics Letters, 2012, 116, pp.15-19. ⟨10.1016/j.econlet.2012.01.004⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.01.004

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