La transmisión intergeneracional en el autoempleo: El efecto de la situación financiera familiar

Gutiérrez, Antonio and Velilla, Jorge (2022): La transmisión intergeneracional en el autoempleo: El efecto de la situación financiera familiar.

Abstract

Existing research has concentrated on the determinants of entrepreneurship and the behaviours that give rise to it. There is a great deal of evidence, which points to intergenerational transmission as one of the fundamental reasons behind the decision of becoming an entrepreneur. However, there is no consensus on the channels of transmission. This Master Thesis empirically analyses the effect of the family financial situation on the intergenerational transmission of self-employment. Using data from the 2019 European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) we report on the existence of a statistically significant intergenerational correlation of self-employment. In this sense, the results show the relevance of family financial resources on the intergenerational correlations of self-employment.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: The effect of family financial status on intergenerational transmission of self-employment.
• Language: Spanish
• Keywords: Self-employment, Intergenerational transmission, Financial status, EU-SILC data, Europe
• Subjects: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J23 - Labor Demand; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers > J62 - Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies > O52 - Europe

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