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Entrepreneurship and welfare

Entrepreneurship and welfare
Entrepreneurship and welfare
Here, I examine returns to entrepreneurship using a standard measure of welfare, the per-capita consumption expenditure. This analysis, using quantile regressions, reveals the existence of a welfare hierarchy in occupations. The results suggest that, across the welfare distribution, entrepreneurs who employ others have the highest returns in terms of consumption, while those entrepreneurs who work for themselves, that is, self-employed individuals, have slightly lower returns than the salaried employees. However, self-employment entails higher returns than casual labor and a relative escape from poverty.
developing countries, entrepreneurship, quantile-regressions, self-employment, welfare
65-79
Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan
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Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan
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Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan (2010) Entrepreneurship and welfare. Small Business Economics, 34 (1), 65-79. (doi:10.1007/s11187-009-9195-5).

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Here, I examine returns to entrepreneurship using a standard measure of welfare, the per-capita consumption expenditure. This analysis, using quantile regressions, reveals the existence of a welfare hierarchy in occupations. The results suggest that, across the welfare distribution, entrepreneurs who employ others have the highest returns in terms of consumption, while those entrepreneurs who work for themselves, that is, self-employed individuals, have slightly lower returns than the salaried employees. However, self-employment entails higher returns than casual labor and a relative escape from poverty.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 6 May 2009
Published date: January 2010
Keywords: developing countries, entrepreneurship, quantile-regressions, self-employment, welfare
Organisations: Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship

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Local EPrints ID: 354329
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/354329
PURE UUID: b2398d41-e22f-41bd-b4fc-2eb6799d5959
ORCID for Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1225-3174

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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:48

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