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Well-being effects of self-employment: A spatial inquiry
University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE). University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9590-8019
University of Groningen, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, Groningen, Netherlands.
Urban Economics Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands.
2019 (English)In: Journal of Business Venturing, ISSN 0883-9026, E-ISSN 1873-2003, Vol. 34, no 4, p. 589-607Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Our paper presents an empirical analysis of entrepreneurial well-being using a large-scale longitudinal household survey from the UK that tracks almost 50,000 individuals across seven waves over the period 2009–2017, as well as a number of exploratory case studies. We contribute to the existing literature by investigating how entrepreneurial well-being varies across locations along the urban-rural continuum, and across wealthy-deprived neighbourhoods. We use a Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM) approach to compare the well-being outcomes of individuals who switch into self-employment from waged employment, and show that entrepreneurial well-being, in the form of job satisfaction, is significantly higher for those living in semi-urban locations, relative to those living in urban and rural locations. We argue that semi-urban locations provide an optimal combination of ease of doing business and quality of life. Our results also show that individuals in wealthy neighbourhoods who switch into self-employment experience higher job satisfaction than otherwise comparable individuals living in materially deprived neighbourhoods, although the latter experience greater levels of life satisfaction following the switch. 

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Elsevier, 2019. Vol. 34, no 4, p. 589-607
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Entrepreneurship, Neighbourhood effects, Self-employment, Urban-rural, Well-being
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-47815DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2018.11.001ISI: 000470948800002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85056711301Local ID: ;intsam;1394008OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-47815DiVA, id: diva2:1394008
Available from: 2020-02-18 Created: 2020-02-18 Last updated: 2021-02-26Bibliographically approved

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