INTRA-GENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN URUGUAY

In this paper we follow an income-based, time-dependence approach to measure the impact of entrepreneurship on social mobility in Uruguay. The working definition of entrepreneur is business owners with employees. Using household surveys from 1982 to 2010 we show that their income level, income volat...

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Autores principales:	BUKSTEIN,DANIEL, GANDELMAN,NÉSTOR
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía. 2014
Materias:	income mobility social mobility entrepreneurship pseudo-panels
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description	In this paper we follow an income-based, time-dependence approach to measure the impact of entrepreneurship on social mobility in Uruguay. The working definition of entrepreneur is business owners with employees. Using household surveys from 1982 to 2010 we show that their income level, income volatility, and evolution over the business cycle are consistent with them being opportunity entrepreneurs. Self-employed workers are more similar to necessity entrepreneurs. We find significant evidence that entrepreneurship is associated with greater social mobility while self-employment is not.
author	BUKSTEIN,DANIEL GANDELMAN,NÉSTOR
author_facet	BUKSTEIN,DANIEL GANDELMAN,NÉSTOR
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title	INTRA-GENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN URUGUAY
title_short	INTRA-GENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN URUGUAY
title_full	INTRA-GENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN URUGUAY
title_fullStr	INTRA-GENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN URUGUAY
title_full_unstemmed	INTRA-GENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN URUGUAY
title_sort	intra-generational social mobility and entrepreneurship in uruguay
publisher	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía.
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INTRA-GENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN URUGUAY

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