Self-employment and entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets
Self-employment and entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jue.2014.09.001
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发表时间：
2014-11-01
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Silva, Olmo
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作者：
Faggio, Giulia;Silva, Olmo
我们研究了自营职业与城市和农村劳动力市场中创业的一些突出方面--即企业创造和创新--之间的联系。为了做到这一点，我们结合了英国的个人和公司级别的数据，这些数据在上班旅行地区级别上汇总。我们发现，较高的自营职业发生率与城市地区的商业创造和创新密切相关，但与农村地区无关。我们还记录了，在劳动力市场机会相对较差的地区，农村工人成为个体户的人数比城市工人多，尽管这种异质性在专注于创业时并不明显。最后，我们表明，一旦我们考虑到当地劳动力市场的情况，自营职业与我们在农村地区创业的代理人之间的错位就会消失。我们的结果表明，自营职业、商业创造和创新在城市地区排列得很好，因为它们捕捉到了相同的经济现象--即真正的创业。农村地区的情况并非如此。(C)2014年提交人。由爱思唯尔公司出版。这是一篇基于CC by License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).的开放获取文章
We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship - namely business creation and innovation - in urban and rural labour markets. In order to do so, we combine individual and firm-level data for Britain aggregated at the Travel-to-Work Area level. We find that a higher incidence of self-employment positively and strongly correlates with business creation and innovation in urban areas, but not in rural areas. We also document that more rural than urban workers become self-employed in areas with comparably poor labour market opportunities, although this heterogeneity is not evident when focussing on entrepreneurship. Finally, we show that the misalignment between self-employment and our proxies for entrepreneurship in rural areas disappears once we account for local labour market conditions. Our results suggest that self-employment, business creation and innovation are well lined-up in urban areas because they capture the same economic phenomenon - namely, genuine entrepreneurship. This is not the case for rural areas. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).