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Experience, Education, and Entrepreneurial Success: A View from Bangladesh

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  • Mahfuza Khatun
  • Sikandar Siddiqui

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This paper examines the impact of education on the age/earnings profiles of self-employed Bangladeshi men, using data from a survey carried out by the first author in 2010. Its results strongly support the perception that educational attainment and on-the-job experience are strongly complementary rather than mutually substitutable in increasing the likelihood of achieving a high income level. Yet the high degree of earnings heterogeneity among well-educated respondents in the sample also indicates that academic excellence is a catalyst but not a guarantor for entrepreneurial success, and that levels of education that are formally equivalent may nevertheless have very different implications for the likelihood of prosperity in business.

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  • Mahfuza Khatun & Sikandar Siddiqui, 2015. "Experience, Education, and Entrepreneurial Success: A View from Bangladesh," Journal of Social and Development Sciences, AMH International, vol. 6(4), pages 71-81, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:rnd:arjsds:v:6:y:2015:i:4:id:4174
    DOI: 10.22610/jsds.v6i4.861
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