Well-being effects of self-employment: A spatial inquiry
dc.contributor.author | Abreu, Maria | |
dc.contributor.author | Oner, Özge | |
dc.contributor.author | Brouwer, A | |
dc.contributor.author | van Leeuwen, E | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-12T00:31:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-12-12T00:31:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-07 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0883-9026 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/286712 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV | |
dc.title | Well-being effects of self-employment: A spatial inquiry | |
dc.type | Article | |
prism.endingPage | 607 | |
prism.issueIdentifier | 4 | |
prism.publicationDate | 2019 | |
prism.publicationName | Journal of Business Venturing | |
prism.startingPage | 589 | |
prism.volume | 34 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.17863/CAM.34019 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-11-02 | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2018.11.001 | |
rioxxterms.version | AM | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-07-01 | |
dc.contributor.orcid | Oner, Özge [0000-0001-9590-8019] | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1873-2003 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
cam.issuedOnline | 2018-11-20 | |
rioxxterms.freetoread.startdate | 2020-01-01 |
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