Is it boring to be an entrepreneur? Evidence from Europe

Pirla, Sergio and Ortega-Lapiedra, Raquel (2024): Is it boring to be an entrepreneur? Evidence from Europe.

Abstract

Individuals not only seek a happy and meaningful life, but an interesting one. In this letter, we show that past estimates of the well-being gains from entrepreneurship have overlooked an important aspect of the relationship between self-employment and well-being: boredom. Using a sample of over 30,000 individuals from 25 European countries, we show that self-employment is related to lower levels of boredom – a relationship that is not captured by traditional measures of hedonic or eudaimonic well-being.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Boredom, Entrepreneurship
• Subjects: L - Industrial Organization > L2 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior > L26 - Entrepreneurship; M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M5 - Personnel Economics

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