Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns

By H. Berglann, Espen R. Moen, Knut RÃ¸ed, Jens Skogstrøm. Social Science Research Network, 2009

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We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of entrepreneurship not only comprises self-employment, but also employment in partly self-owned limited liability firms. Based on this extended entrepreneurship concept, we find that entrepreneurship tends to be profitable. It also raises income uncertainty, but the most successful quartile gains much more than the least successful quartile loses. Key determinants of the decision to become an entrepreneur are occupational qualifications, family resources, gender, and work environments. Individual unemployment encourages, while aggregate unemployment discourages entrepreneurship.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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The entrepreneurial earnings puzzle: Mismeasurement or real? (2014, background): “However, in Norway, the estimated difference was positive, 16% (Berglann et al., 2011).”
Effects of Schumpeterian and Kirznerian entrepreneurship on economic growth: panel data evidence (2017, background): “…have received increasing contemporary recognition on a global scale even if, due in large part to their transversality, heterogeneity and subjectivity (Davidsson 2009), they have certainly not become the subject of much academic consensus (Berglann et al. 2011; Martin, Picazo, and Navarro 2010).”