Who skims the cream of the Italian graduate crop? Wage-employment versus self-employment

Carolina Castagnetti and Luisa Rosti

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Abstract: This paper tests whether the academic achievement is a significant determinant of the employment status in the Italian labor market: are the new entrepreneurs selected from the top or bottom end of the graduates ability distribution? Is the cream of the graduate crop pulled into self-employment by the higher expected earnings or are the individuals with lower degree score pushed into entrepreneurship by poor alternatives? Our data show a strong negative relation between academic achievement and self-employment status, i.e. we assess the skimming of the best graduates into wage and salary work.

Keywords: Self-employment; Italy; Selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-12-05
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Related works:
Journal Article: Who skims the cream of the Italian graduate crop? Wage employment versus self-employment (2011)
Working Paper: Who skims the cream of the Italian graduate crop? Wage-employment versus self-employment (2009)
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