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What Is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers

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Poutvaara, Panu (CEBR, CESifo and IZA Bonn)
Tuomala, Juha (VATT)

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Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs have lower incomes. We also analyze those who changed careers. Those with higher level of education are more likely to switch from entrepreneurship to workers, while education does not explain, in a statistically significant level, switching from being worker to entrepreneurship.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 1178.

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Keywords: entrepreneurs; workers; Finnish labor market; education;

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J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data

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  1. Usitalo, Roope, 2001. "Homo Entreprenaurus?," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 33(13), pages 1631-38, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Aki Kangasharju & Sari Pekkala, 2001. "The Role of Education in Self-Employment Success," Studies in Economics 0116, Department of Economics, University of Kent. [Downloadable!]
  3. Robert E. Lucas Jr., 1978. "On the Size Distribution of Business Firms," Bell Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 9(2), pages 508-523, Autumn. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Tomi Kyyrä, 1999. "Post-Unemployment Wages and Economic Incentives to Exit from Unemployment," Research Reports 56, Government Institute for Economic Research Finland (VATT). [Downloadable!]
  5. Kihlstrom, Richard E & Laffont, Jean-Jacques, 1979. "A General Equilibrium Entrepreneurial Theory of Firm Formation Based on Risk Aversion," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 87(4), pages 719-48, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Mika Maliranta & Satu Nurmi, 2004. "Analyzing Entrepreneurship with the Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data (FLEED).Matching and qualitative properties of the data," Discussion Papers 920, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy. [Downloadable!]
  2. Matthias Benz, . "Entrepreneurship as a non-profit-seeking activity," IEW - Working Papers iewwp243, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]
  3. Mika Maliranta & Satu Nurmi, 2004. "Do Foreign Players Change the Nature of the Game Among Local Entrepreneurs?," Discussion Papers 942, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy. [Downloadable!]
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