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Des inégalités d’accès aux inégalités de succès : enquête sur les fondateurs et fondatrices de start-up

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  • Marion Flécher

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Start-up companies are often portrayed as innovative companies bearing a risky business model and created by young and heroic entrepreneurs. Yet, start-up companies do not correspond to any legal or statistic category and thus find no objective definition. This article aims to fill this gap by shedding light on this object with critical scrutiny. Based on qualitative and quantitative data collected since 2016 among start-up founders, this work analyzes the purported specificities of start-up companies and questions the representations and the myths they are associated with. Do these companies have a greater potential for innovation and growth than traditional firms? Are they created by young and talented “self-made men” and women? This contribution will study start-up creation process through the analysis of the social and economic resources of their founders and show that it tends to reinforce class and gender inequalities. JEL: J16, J62, L23, L26

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  • Marion Flécher, 2019. "Des inégalités d’accès aux inégalités de succès : enquête sur les fondateurs et fondatrices de start-up," Travail et Emploi, La DARES, vol. 0(3), pages 39-68.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:teeldc:te_159_0039
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    Keywords

    start-up companies; inequality; gender; social success;
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    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship

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