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It's the Opportunity Cost, stupid! How Self-Employment responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew

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  • Peter Berkhout

    (RIGO)

  • Joop Hartog

    () (University of Amsterdam)

  • Mirjam van Praag

    () (University of Amsterdam)

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There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in selfemployment

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Date of creation: 11 Nov 2011
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Handle: RePEc:dgr:uvatin:20110165

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Keywords: entrepreneurship; self-employment; wage-employment; income distribution; income risk; income skew; income variance; occupational choice; labor market entry; labor market segments; opportunity cost;

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  1. Joseph Golec & Maurry Tamarkin, 1998. "Bettors Love Skewness, Not Risk, at the Horse Track," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 106(1), pages 205-225, February.
  2. Barton H. Hamilton, 2000. "Does Entrepreneurship Pay? An Empirical Analysis of the Returns to Self-Employment," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 108(3), pages 604-631, June.
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