Individual entrepreneurial exit and earnings in subsequent paid employment
Journal article, Peer reviewed
Date
2016Metadata
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Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 40(2016)2: 401-420 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/etap.12225Abstract
We study earnings of individuals who exit entrepreneurship for paid employment. We find
mean (median) positive rewards from entrepreneurship in subsequent paid employment
relative to matched employees. Rewards are higher for former entrepreneurs hired in highly innovative sectors. We also find that the performance of the exited firm is a strong predictor of the earnings premium for former entrepreneurs when the firm performed well, while we do not find median discounts for entrepreneurs exiting low performing firms. We use registry data that encompass the population of firms and individuals in the Norwegian economy.
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This is the accepted and refereed manuscript to the article