This paper tests whether the academic achievement is a significant determinant of the employment status in the Italian labour market: are the new entrepreneurs selected from the top or bottom end of the graduates ability distribution? Is the cream of the graduate crop pulled into self-employment by the higher expected earnings or are the individuals with lower degree score pushed into entrepreneurship by poor alternatives? Our data show a strong negative relation between academic achievement and self-employment status, i.e. we assess the skimming of the best graduates into wage and salary work.
Who skims the cream of the Italian graduate crop?Wage-employment versus self-employment
CASTAGNETTI, CAROLINA;ROSTI, LUISA
2008-01-01
Abstract
This paper tests whether the academic achievement is a significant determinant of the employment status in the Italian labour market: are the new entrepreneurs selected from the top or bottom end of the graduates ability distribution? Is the cream of the graduate crop pulled into self-employment by the higher expected earnings or are the individuals with lower degree score pushed into entrepreneurship by poor alternatives? Our data show a strong negative relation between academic achievement and self-employment status, i.e. we assess the skimming of the best graduates into wage and salary work.File in questo prodotto:
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