Entrepreneurship versus joblessness. Explaining the rise in self-employment.

Autor/inn/en	Falco, Paolo; Haywood, Luke
Institution	Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Titel	Entrepreneurship versus joblessness. Explaining the rise in self-employment. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Unternehmertum gegen Arbeitslosigkeit. Den Anstieg der Selbstständigkeit erklären.
Quelle	Berlin (2013), 57 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	DIW-Diskussionspapiere. 1334
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1619-4535
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Einkommen; Einkommensentwicklung; Gewinn; Unternehmensgründung; Berufliche Selbstständigkeit; Qualifikationsstruktur; Unternehmer; Abhängig Beschäftigter; Selbstständiger; Ghana
Abstract	The self-employed constitute a large proportion of the workforce in developing countries and the sector is growing. Different accounts exist as to the causes of this development, with pull factors such as high returns to capital contrasted with push factors such as barriers to more desirable salaried jobs. Using data from Ghana, we investigate the changing structure of earnings in self-employment relative to salaried work. We decompose earnings in a two-sector labour market allowing for flexible patterns of sorting on unobservables by means of a correlated random coefficient model estimated by IV-GMM. A unique panel dataset provides us with suitable instruments to tackle the endogeneity of sector choice and capital accumulation. We show that returns to productive characteristics in SE have increased significantly over the period 2004-11 and the sector has attracted workers with higher skills. We conclude that pull factors have significantly strengthened, pointing against the grim view of self-employment as an occupation of last resort. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2014/2