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Well-being effects of self-employment : A spatial inquiry
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- Abreu, Maria (author)
- University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Öner, Özge, 1986- (author)
- Jönköping University,IHH, Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE),University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Brouwer, Aleid (author)
- University of Groningen, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, Groningen, Netherlands
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- van Leeuwen, Eveline (author)
- Urban Economics Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands
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- Elsevier, 2019
- 2019
- English.
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In: Journal of Business Venturing. - : Elsevier. - 0883-9026 .- 1873-2003. ; 34:4, s. 589-607
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- Our paper presents an empirical analysis of entrepreneurial well-being using a large-scale longitudinal household survey from the UK that tracks almost 50,000 individuals across seven waves over the period 2009–2017, as well as a number of exploratory case studies. We contribute to the existing literature by investigating how entrepreneurial well-being varies across locations along the urban-rural continuum, and across wealthy-deprived neighbourhoods. We use a Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM) approach to compare the well-being outcomes of individuals who switch into self-employment from waged employment, and show that entrepreneurial well-being, in the form of job satisfaction, is significantly higher for those living in semi-urban locations, relative to those living in urban and rural locations. We argue that semi-urban locations provide an optimal combination of ease of doing business and quality of life. Our results also show that individuals in wealthy neighbourhoods who switch into self-employment experience higher job satisfaction than otherwise comparable individuals living in materially deprived neighbourhoods, although the latter experience greater levels of life satisfaction following the switch.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Entrepreneurship
- Neighbourhood effects
- Self-employment
- Urban-rural
- Well-being
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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