Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers

Magnus Lofstrom, Timothy Bates and Simon Parker ()

No 6103, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Drivers of entrepreneurial entry are investigated in this study by examining how entry into small-business ownership is shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering firms in various industries are shown to differ profoundly, depending on the type of venture entered. The educational credentials of highly educated potential entrepreneurs, in particular, predict avoidance of small-firm ownership in some industries as well as attraction to others. Recognizing that individuals choose an industry sector jointly with their decision to enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship.

Keywords: entry barriers; transitions; capital constraints; self-employment; entrepreneurship; business start-ups (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 L26 M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2011-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-cse, nep-ent, nep-lma and nep-sbm
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Published - published as 'Why Are Some People More Likely to Become Small-Businesses Owners than Others: Entrepreneurship Entry and Industry-specific Barriers' in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2014, 29(2), 232–251

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