Market size and entrepreneurship
Market size and entrepreneurship
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DOI：
10.1093/jeg/lbr035
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发表时间：
2012-11
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Yasuhiro Sato;T. Tabuchi;Kazuhiro Yamamoto
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作者：
Yasuhiro Sato;T. Tabuchi;Kazuhiro Yamamoto
为了检验市场规模对创业的影响，我们使用日本都道府县的数据，估计了一个包含劳动者创业决策的垄断竞争模型。我们的研究结果表明，就人口密度而言，更大的市场规模会导致个人成为企业家的动机更高。人口密度每增加10%，希望成为企业家的人的比例就会增加大约1%。相反，这种对自营职业率的积极影响仅在人口密度很高或很低的都道府县才能体现出来。在中等人口密度的都道府县，个体经营率与人口密度呈负相关。
In order to examine the impacts of market size on entrepreneurship, we estimate a monopolisticcompetition model that involves the workers' decisions to pursue entrepreneurship by using dataon Japanese prefectures. Our results show that a larger market size in terms of populationdensity leads to a higher incentive for individuals to become entrepreneurs. A 10% increase inthe population density increases the share of people who wish to become entrepreneurs byapproximately 1%. In contrast, such a positive effect on the self-employment rate is observedonly for prefectures with very high or very low densities. The self-employment ratio isnegatively associated with population density in prefectures with medium densities.