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Entrepreneurship, Liquidity Constraints and Start-up Costs

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Raquel Fonseca
Pierre-Carl Michaud
Thepthida Sopraseuth

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We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model that yields predictions that can be tested on cross-sectional data with exogenous variation in liquidity constraints (e.g. access to credit) and start-up costs. We use three highly comparable micro datasets (SHARE, ELSA and HRS) focusing on the population age 50+ in 9 countries. These countries have very different levels of start-up costs and potential liquidity constraints. Reduced form results support our theoretical predictions. While higher liquidity constraints yield a steeper wealth profile for the fraction of workers in entrepreneurship, startup costs flatten this relationship by depressing the marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and France have flatter wealth gradients.

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Paper provided by McMaster University in its series Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population Research Papers with number 173.

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Keywords: entrepreneurship; liquidity constraints; start-up costs; occupational choice; cross-country comparisons;

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E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
E23 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Production
J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General

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