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Switching costs and occupational transition into self-employment

Henley, Andrew - 2009

for aspiring entrepreneurs. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; switching costs ; occupational choice …

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Why do individuals choose self-employment?

Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - 2009

-directed 'opportunity' entrepreneurship is more strongly associated with higher educational attainment. Those joining family businesses … entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …

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Panos, Georgios A.; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; … - 2009

The inter-related dynamics of dual job-holding, human capital and occupational choice between primary and secondary jobs are investigated, using a panel sample (1991-2005) of UK employees from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). A sequential profile of the working lives of employees is...

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To be or not to be... a scientist?

Chevalier, Arnaud - 2012

Policy makers generally advocate that to remain competitive countries need to train more scientists. Employers regularly complain of qualified scientist shortages blaming the higher wages in other occupations for luring graduates out of scientific occupations. Using a survey of recent British...

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The cost of acting "girly" : gender stereotypes and educational choices

Favara, Marta - 2012

This paper looks at horizontal sex segregation in education as a factor contributing to gender segregation in the labor market. Economic theories fail to explain why women with the same years of schooling and educational attainment as men are under-represented in many technical degrees, which...

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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs

Fonseca, Raquel (contributor); … - 2007

entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship …. The model predicts that, with liquidity constraints, the probability of entering entrepreneurship is an increasing … wealth profile for the fraction of workers in entrepreneurship, start-up costs weaken this relationship by depressing the …

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Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers

Ichino, Andrea; Lindström, Elly-Ann; Viviano, Eliana - 2011

We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why women in these countries react in this way to the sex of their first child, which is chosen...

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Transitioning from solo self-employed to microbusiness employer : local economic environment or owner characteristics?

Henley, Andrew - 2019

relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …

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Accident risk, gender, family status and occupational choice in the UK

Grazier, Suzanne (contributor); Sloane, Peter J. (contributor) - 2006

US, we use family structure as a proxy for the degree of risk aversion to test the proposition that those with strong …

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The impact of degree class on the first destinations of graduates : a regression discontinuity approach

Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2010

This paper uses a regression-discontinuity design to identify the causal impact of degree class on the first destinations of UK graduates. We exploit the discontinuous relationship between degree class and the mean grade achieved by graduates in their last year at university, which is induced by...

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