IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INHERITED? A STUDY OF INTERGENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY IN MEXICO

The 2006 ESRU Survey on Social Mobility in Mexico is used to identify determinants of the decision to become an entrepreneur and analyze entrepreneurs' intergenerational (i.e., respondents-parents) household wealth mobility. Entrepreneurs are distinguished from own-account workers. First, we fi...

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Autores principales:	VELEZ-GRAJALES,VlVIANA, VELEZ-GRAJALES,ROBERTO
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía. 2014
Materias:	social mobility entrepreneurship propensity score matching Mexico
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0719-043320140002000042015-01-19IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INHERITED? A STUDY OF INTERGENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY IN MEXICOVELEZ-GRAJALES,VlVIANAVELEZ-GRAJALES,ROBERTO social mobility entrepreneurship propensity score matching Mexico The 2006 ESRU Survey on Social Mobility in Mexico is used to identify determinants of the decision to become an entrepreneur and analyze entrepreneurs' intergenerational (i.e., respondents-parents) household wealth mobility. Entrepreneurs are distinguished from own-account workers. First, we find that entrepreneurship is strongly determined by the father being an entrepreneur and not necessarily by the individual's initial wealth or educational attainment. Second, the mean effect of entrepreneurial activity on individual income is positive and greater for those whose parents belonged to the extreme ends of the socioeconomic distribution. Third, it is more likely for entrepreneurs to experience greater upward wealth mobility than non-entrepreneurs.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=S0719-04332014000200004en10.7764/LAJE.51.2.247
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spellingShingle	social mobility entrepreneurship propensity score matching Mexico VELEZ-GRAJALES,VlVIANA VELEZ-GRAJALES,ROBERTO IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INHERITED? A STUDY OF INTERGENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY IN MEXICO
description	The 2006 ESRU Survey on Social Mobility in Mexico is used to identify determinants of the decision to become an entrepreneur and analyze entrepreneurs' intergenerational (i.e., respondents-parents) household wealth mobility. Entrepreneurs are distinguished from own-account workers. First, we find that entrepreneurship is strongly determined by the father being an entrepreneur and not necessarily by the individual's initial wealth or educational attainment. Second, the mean effect of entrepreneurial activity on individual income is positive and greater for those whose parents belonged to the extreme ends of the socioeconomic distribution. Third, it is more likely for entrepreneurs to experience greater upward wealth mobility than non-entrepreneurs.
author	VELEZ-GRAJALES,VlVIANA VELEZ-GRAJALES,ROBERTO
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title	IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INHERITED? A STUDY OF INTERGENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY IN MEXICO
title_short	IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INHERITED? A STUDY OF INTERGENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY IN MEXICO
title_full	IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INHERITED? A STUDY OF INTERGENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY IN MEXICO
title_fullStr	IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INHERITED? A STUDY OF INTERGENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY IN MEXICO
title_full_unstemmed	IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INHERITED? A STUDY OF INTERGENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY IN MEXICO
title_sort	is entrepreneurship inherited? a study of intergenerational social mobility in mexico
publisher	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Economía.
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IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INHERITED? A STUDY OF INTERGENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY IN MEXICO

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