Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20013 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy No. 2305
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment. We outline an econometric methodology to account for this approach and find that it is superior to probit/logit models which have dominated the literature. While our results indicate that this existing literature is good at explaining an individual's propensity to try self-employment, we find that entrepreneurial persistence is determined by a different model and unearth some new insights into the roles of early career experience, finance, role models, gender and the unemployment push effect.
Subjects: 
Self-employment
entrepreneurial persistence
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JEL: 
C25
J23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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