Entrepreneurs and Welfare in Economies with Employers and Own Account Self-Employed

44 Pages Posted: 6 Feb 2009 Last revised: 6 Jul 2009

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Vicente Salas-Fumás

University of Zaragoza - Department of Business Administration and Organization

J. Javier Sanchez-Asin

University of Zaragoza - Department of Business Administration and Organization

Date Written: March 20, 2009

Abstract

In this paper we extend models of market equilibrium from binary occupational choices of people with different entrepreneurial ability, to the realistic case that entrepreneurs can decide whether they hire workers and become employers or whether they become own account self-employed. We find that the information regarding productivity level and its growth is different for the equilibrium share of employers and for the share of own account self-employed. Empirical evidence using data from the Spanish Autonomous Communities for the period of 1980-2006 confirms that the share of employers is positively (negatively) associated with the current level of productivity (next period productivity growth), while the association between share of own account self-employed and productivity or productivity growth is the opposite.

Keywords: Occupational choice, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial ability, productivity

JEL Classification: J24, L26, O47, D24

Suggested Citation

Salas-Fumás, Vicente and Sanchez-Asin, J. Javier, Entrepreneurs and Welfare in Economies with Employers and Own Account Self-Employed (March 20, 2009). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1338855 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1338855

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