Self‐employment: a study of seventeen OECD countries

Staber, Udo; Bögenhold, Dieter

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2338.1993.tb00666.x

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“…Moreover, as self-employed workers often do not enjoy the same entitlement to benefits as those in waged employment, a high replacement ratio may also deter some workers from leaving paid-employment for self-employment for fear of losing their access to benefits. Both Staber and Bogenhold (1993) and Parker and Robson (2000) report evidence of a negative relationship between the replacement ratio and the rate of self-employment in the OECD.…”

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Robson

2003

Small Business Economics

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractUsing recently developed indicators of the strictness of employment protection legislation in OECD countries, the paper examines the issue of whether strict employment protection legislation may promote self-employment by encouraging employers to contract-out work to self-employed workers. Contrary to the results of previous studies, the paper finds little evidence for a positive relationship between self-employment and the strictness of EPL. While the raw data suggest that a positive relationship may indeed exist, once suitable control variables are introduced into the analysis, it appears that if anything, the opposite may be true: i.e. stricter employment protection legislation may actually reduce self-employment.JEL Codes: J21, J23* The analysis reported in this paper grew out of work originally carried out for the OECD. I am grateful to John Evans and Paula Adam of the OECD, for their help in providing some of the data used in the analysis and to John Evans, Simon Parker and an anonymous referee for their helpful comments on previous versions of the paper. Responsibility for the analysis and interpretation of the data, and for the views expressed in the paper, is mine alone.2

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Robson

2003

Small Business Economics

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“…Some authors have found robust influences of this variable on entrepreneurial behavior, for example Lucas (1978), Acs et al, (1994) and Klapper et al, (2010 A number of studies link this factor to business creation (Blanchflower, 2000), (Staber and Bogenhold, 1993) and (Cowling and Peter, 1997 and from a particular country in a specific year. The expectation here is that amount of compromised goods will have an impact on the number of businesses created in any given period.…”

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Foreign direct investment, institutional quality, economic freedom and entrepreneurship in emerging markets

Herrera-Echeverri

Haar

Estévez-Bretón

2014

Journal of Business Research

144

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This study investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment, institutional quality, economic freedom, and entrepreneurship in emerging markets. The research compares the capacity and appetite for business creation among high-income, low-income and emerging countries. The results are based on a panel study of data, from 2004 to 2009 for 87 countries, using as its source "The World Bank Entrepreneurship Snapshots" to look at the connection between business creation, institutional quality, market freedom and foreign direct investment (FDI). The findings reveal a strong positive relationship between institutional quality and business generation in all three of the above categories. Meanwhile, institutional quality and how this develops remains significant to business creation at least two years after a business is incubated, underscoring its importance as a contributory factor for creating an environment conducive to entrepreneurship. The freedom to create businesses and invest has a marked impact on business generation in emerging countries, while the influence of international trade appears more important as a spur to the genesis of business in low-income countries. Results also show that regulation of the free market has a short-term effect on business creation. Finally, there is a direct and significant relationship between FDI and business development in emerging countries. The effect of FDI is also felt for at least two years after the foreign investment. This result is consistent with "the spillover theory of entrepreneurship" (Acs et al, 2009;Görg and Strobl, 2002;Ayyagari et al, 2010).

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“…Hence, the higher the replacement rate, the higher the opportunity cost of any form of employment versus non-employment (Duval 2003). Moreover, prior research suggests that higher unemployment benefits (Parker and Robson 2004;Staber and Bögenhold 1993) and access to pensions (Fuchs 1982;Zissimopoulos and Karoly 2007) discourage selfemployment compared to waged employment. Thus, if we equate benefits income with income from waged labour (ω t ) in the LM model, high benefits render the entrepreneurial option less desirable by increasing the attractiveness of its alternatives (ω t increases).…”

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Ageing and entrepreneurial preferences

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Previous research on age and entrepreneurship assumed homogeneity and downplayed age-related differences in the motives and aims underlying enterprising behaviour. We argue that the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship influences how the level of entrepreneurial activity varies with age. Using a sample of 2566 respondents from 27European countries we show that entrepreneurial activity increases almost linearly with age for individuals who prefer to only employ themselves (self-employers), whereas it increases up to a critical threshold age (late 40s) and decreases thereafter for those who aspire to hire workers (owner-managers). Age has a considerably smaller effect on entrepreneurial behaviour for those who do not prefer self-employment but are pushed into it by lack of alternative employment opportunities (reluctant entrepreneurs). Our results question the conventional wisdom that entrepreneurial activity declines with age and suggest that effective 2 responses to demographic changes require policy makers to pay close attention to the heterogeneity of entrepreneurial preferences.

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Self‐employment: a study of seventeen OECD countries

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