The Returns to Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Matched Person-Firm Data
32 Pages Posted: 26 Sep 2017
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The Returns to Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Matched Person-Firm Data
The Returns to Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Matched Person-Firm Data
Date Written: September 2017
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: Earnings distribution, Matched person- firm data, Random effects probit model, Returns to entrepreneurship, Self-employment
JEL Classification: C23, G32, J31, L26
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