It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew
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- Peter Berkhout & Joop Hartog & Mirjam van Praag, 2011. "It's the Opportunity Cost, stupid! How Self-Employment responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 11-165/3, Tinbergen Institute.
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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;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2011-12-13 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-HRM-2011-12-13 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2011-12-13 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2011-12-13 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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