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| Author: | Castagnetti, C. Rosti, L. |
| Title: | Who skims the cream of the Italian graduate crop? Wage employment versus self-employment |
| Journal: | Small business economics
2011 : FEB, VOL 36:2 p. 223-234 |
| Index terms: | self-employment education Italy labour markets occupational choice entrepreneurship |
| Freeterms: | wages |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper studies whether academic achievement is a significant factor of employment status in the Italian labor market: are new entrepreneurs emerging from the top or bottom end of the graduate ability distribution? Is the cream of the graduate crop pulled into self-employment thanks to the higher expected earnings or are lower degree score students pushed into entrepreneurship by having few alternatives? Our data indicate a strong negative relation between academic achievement and self-employment status, i.e., the best graduates are skimmed into wage and salary work. |
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