The Role of Entrepreneurship in the Context of Career Trajectories: Moving Back into Wage Employment or into Unemployment?. (7th August 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Debrulle, Jonas
• Is Part Of: Labour. Volume 30:Number 2(2016)
• Page Start: 180
• Page End: 197
• Publication Date: 2015-08-07
• Subjects: J24 -- J62 -- J64 -- C14 -- D81; Labor economics -- Periodicals; Labor economics -- Europe -- Periodicals; Industrial relations -- Periodicals; Industrial relations -- Europe -- Periodicals; Labor market -- Periodicals; Labor market -- Europe -- Periodicals; 331
• DOI: 10.1111/labr.12060
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1121-7081

Abstract

Abstract: This study investigates patterns of movement from self‐employment to wage employment or to unemployment in Belgium. Non‐parametric techniques and complimentary log–log analyses are used to determine the significance of stable individual traits (e.g. gender) and of time‐dependent characteristics (e.g. family and organizational context, labour market mobility) in moving back to wage employment or to unemployment. Evidence is provided on the possibility of entrepreneurship acting as a 'steppingstone' between long‐term unemployment and paid work. Yet, significant relationships also emerge between ex‐ante time spent in unemployment and the possibility of continued unemployment upon self‐employment exit.