Becoming an Entrepreneur

Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact onincome of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment andleadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non-parametricmatching estimator the paper alleviates problems of selection bias (on observable andunobservable traits) and creates the appropriate counterfactuals of interest...

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Year of publication:	2007-04-01
Authors:	Ñopo, Hugo ; Valenzuela, Patricio
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Entrepreneurship \| Verschiedenheit \| Selbständige Arbeit

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Extent:	122880 bytes 27 p. application/pdf
Series:	IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Discussion Papers IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 2716 (2007)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	J16 - Economics of Gender ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; J41 - Contracts: Specific Human Capital, Matching Models, Efficiency Wage Models, and Internal Labor Markets ; Management and organisation. Other aspects ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; Chile
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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