| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 其他
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11187-011-9413-9
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| ISBN | 0921-898X
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| Life satisfaction and self-employment: a matching approach. |
| Binder, Martin; Coad, Alex
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| 发表日期 | 2012
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| 出处 | Small Business Economics
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| 出版者 | Springer
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| 出版年 | 2012
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| 页码 | 1009-1033
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Despite lower incomes, the self-employed consistently report higher satisfaction with their jobs. But are self-employed individuals also happier, more satisfied with their lives as a whole? High job satisfaction might cause them to neglect other important domains of life, such that the fulfilling job crowds out other pleasures, leaving the individual on the whole not happier than others. Moreover, self-employment is often chosen to escape unemployment, not for the associated autonomy that seems to account for the high job satisfaction. We apply matching estimators that allow us to better take into account the above-mentioned considerations and construct an appropriate control group (in terms of balanced covariates). Using the BHPS dataset that comprises a large nationally representative sample of the British populace, we find that individuals who move from regular employment into self-employment experience an increase in life satisfaction (up to 2 years later), while individuals moving from unemployment to self-employment are not more satisfied than their counterparts moving from unemployment to regular employment. We argue that these groups correspond to “opportunity” and “necessity” entrepreneurship, respectively. These findings are robust with regard to different measures of subjective well-being as well as choice of matching variables, and also robustness exercises involving “simulated confounders”. |
| 特色分类 | H Social Sciences
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| 关键词 | Self-employment
Happiness
Matching estimators
Unemployment
BHPS
Necessity entrepreneurship
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| URL | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/40788/
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| 来源智库 | Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/466655
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Binder, Martin,Coad, Alex. Life satisfaction and self-employment: a matching approach.. 2012.
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