IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP A CHANNEL OF SOCIAL MOBILITY IN LATIN AMERICA?

IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP A CHANNEL OF SOCIAL MOBILITY IN LATIN AMERICA?

This paper summarizes the findings in this special issue of the Latin American Journal of Economics on entrepreneurship's role in upward social mobility in Latin America, especially for the middle class, often considered the cradle of entrepreneurship. The income-persistent coefficients estimat...

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Autores principales: CASTELLANI,FRANCESCA, LORA,EDUARDO
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía. 2014
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Latin America
entrepreneurship
social mobility
middle class
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spelling oai:scielo:S0719-043320140002000012015-01-19IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP A CHANNEL OF SOCIAL MOBILITY IN LATIN AMERICA?CASTELLANI,FRANCESCALORA,EDUARDO Latin America entrepreneurship social mobility middle class This paper summarizes the findings in this special issue of the Latin American Journal of Economics on entrepreneurship's role in upward social mobility in Latin America, especially for the middle class, often considered the cradle of entrepreneurship. The income-persistent coefficients estimated with pseudo-panel data for Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay indicate that entrepreneurship is a channel of intergenerational mobility, while asset persistence estimates for Mexico show that entrepreneurship increases mobility across generations. Although persistence coefficients don't indicate the direction of such mobility, estimates of income differentials between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs for Ecuador and Mexico support the hypothesis that upward mobility dominates.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía.Latin american journal of economics v.51 n.2 20142014-11-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0719-04332014000200001en10.7764/LAJE.51.2.179
institution Scielo Chile
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language English
topic Latin America
entrepreneurship
social mobility
middle class
spellingShingle Latin America
entrepreneurship
social mobility
middle class
CASTELLANI,FRANCESCA
LORA,EDUARDO
IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP A CHANNEL OF SOCIAL MOBILITY IN LATIN AMERICA?
description This paper summarizes the findings in this special issue of the Latin American Journal of Economics on entrepreneurship's role in upward social mobility in Latin America, especially for the middle class, often considered the cradle of entrepreneurship. The income-persistent coefficients estimated with pseudo-panel data for Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay indicate that entrepreneurship is a channel of intergenerational mobility, while asset persistence estimates for Mexico show that entrepreneurship increases mobility across generations. Although persistence coefficients don't indicate the direction of such mobility, estimates of income differentials between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs for Ecuador and Mexico support the hypothesis that upward mobility dominates.
author CASTELLANI,FRANCESCA
LORA,EDUARDO
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LORA,EDUARDO
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title IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP A CHANNEL OF SOCIAL MOBILITY IN LATIN AMERICA?
title_short IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP A CHANNEL OF SOCIAL MOBILITY IN LATIN AMERICA?
title_full IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP A CHANNEL OF SOCIAL MOBILITY IN LATIN AMERICA?
title_fullStr IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP A CHANNEL OF SOCIAL MOBILITY IN LATIN AMERICA?
title_full_unstemmed IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP A CHANNEL OF SOCIAL MOBILITY IN LATIN AMERICA?
title_sort is entrepreneurship a channel of social mobility in latin america?
publisher Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía.
publishDate 2014
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