The Returns to Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Matched Person-Firm Data

Mirjam Praag and Arvid Raknerud ()
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Arvid Raknerud: Statistics Norway

No 11018, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Empirical studies show low pecuniary returns of switching from wage employment to entrepreneurship. We reconsider the pecuniary gains of this switching by employing a two-stage procedure, where the randomness in the timing of inheritance transfers is used as an exclusion restriction to identify causal effects. The model is estimated on data covering the whole Norwegian population of individuals matched to the entire population of firms established in the period 2002-2011. The results indicate that the average returns to entrepreneurship are significantly negative for individuals entering entrepreneurship through self-employment and modest, but significantly positive, for incorporated startups.

Keywords: returns to entrepreneurship; earnings distribution; matched person-firm data; self-employment; random effects probit model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 G32 J31 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2017-09
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Chapter: The Returns to Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Matched Person-firm Data* (2021)
Working Paper: The returns to entrepreneurship: Evidence from matched person-firm data (2017)
Working Paper: The Returns to Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Matched Person-firm Data (2017)
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