Talent Workers as Entrepreneurs : a New Approach to Aspirational Self-employment

• Autorzy: Joanna Tyrowicz , Magdalena Smyk , Barbara Liberda
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Using the concept of the so-called talent workers (Hsieh et al. 2016), we ask what the link is between wage employment as a talent worker and subsequent establishing of business. Individuals with tertiary education and experience in specific occupations are in principle more likely to develop or adopt innovations necessary for entrepreneurial success. We employ over a decade worth of individual level data on changes in labour market status for Poland - a country with high levels of self-employment, and analyse transitions to self-employment as opposed to switching a job. We find that talent workers are more likely to become self-employed than to change a job and the odds of creating more jobs are higher among talent workers who switch to self-employment than among other groups of workers who become self-employed. These results are robust to two possibly confounding effects - within-sector mobility and higher productivity of workers before entering self-employment. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Entrepreneur; Self-employment; Career success; Research results

PL

Przedsiębiorca; Samozatrudnienie; Sukces zawodowy; Wyniki badań

• Czasopismo: Bank i Kredyt
• Rocznik: 2017
• Numer: nr 6
• Strony: 571--592

Twórcy

autor

Joanna Tyrowicz

• GRAPE | FAME; University of Warsaw

autor

Magdalena Smyk

• GRAPE | FAME; Warsaw School of Economics

autor

Barbara Liberda

• University of Warsaw

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