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Is there a north-south divide in self-employment in England?
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Abstract Using decomposition analysis, the paper investigates why Northern England has fewer but higher performing self-employed individuals than the South. We find the causes are mainly structural differences rather than regional variation in individual characteristics. There are more self employed individu... mehr
Using decomposition analysis, the paper investigates why Northern England has fewer but higher performing self-employed individuals than the South. We find the causes are mainly structural differences rather than regional variation in individual characteristics. There are more self employed individuals in the South, but on average they create fewer jobs. Post compulsory education has a strong negative effect on the probability of self employment in the South, probably due to better employment opportunities there, but little influence in the North. Education has greater positive effects on job creation by entrepreneurs in the North again appears due to regional structural differences.... weniger
Klassifikation
Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung
Raumplanung und Regionalforschung
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2009
Seitenangabe
S. 529-544
Zeitschriftentitel
Regional Studies, 43 (2009) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400701827360
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)