Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction

Milo Bianchi

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Abstract: This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non-monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by building a simple occupational choice model in which financial constraints may impede the creation of firms and depress labor demand, thereby pushing some individuals into self-employment for lack of salaried jobs. In this setting, financial development favors a better matching between individual motivation and occupation, thereby increasing entrepreneurial utility despite increasing competition and so reducing profits.

Keywords: Financial development; entrepreneurship; job satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1), pp.273-286

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Working Paper: Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction (2012)
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