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The Role of Entrepreneurship in the Context of Career Trajectories: Moving Back into Wage Employment or into Unemployment?
Author(s) -
Debrulle Jonas
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/labr.12060
Subject(s) - unemployment , entrepreneurship , economics , labour economics , context (archaeology) , wage , self employment , work (physics) , demographic economics , economic growth , mechanical engineering , paleontology , finance , engineering , biology
This study investigates patterns of movement from self‐employment to wage employment or to unemployment in B elgium. Non‐parametric techniques and complimentary log–log analyses are used to determine the significance of stable individual traits (e.g. gender) and of time‐dependent characteristics (e.g. family and organizational context, labour market mobility) in moving back to wage employment or to unemployment. Evidence is provided on the possibility of entrepreneurship acting as a ‘steppingstone’ between long‐term unemployment and paid work. Yet, significant relationships also emerge between ex‐ante time spent in unemployment and the possibility of continued unemployment upon self‐employment exit.