Job satisfaction and the educated entrepreneur
| Autor: | Kristen Roche |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship. 27:353-368 |
| ISSN: | 2169-2610 0827-6331 |
| Popis: | The job satisfaction literature finds evidence that self-employed workers are more satisfied than their wage and salary counterparts. However, self-employed individuals are a widely heterogeneous group of workers. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates, this paper explores the job satisfaction gap among educated workers – individuals with at least a bachelor's degree. Consistent with the literature, this paper finds a statistically significant, yet modest premium in satisfaction for educated entrepreneurs compared to educated wage and salary workers. This finding varies by occupation, although many occupations, constituting a quarter of the sample, have no satisfaction differential by employment sector. Satisfaction gaps differ by gender, but not by level or conditional earnings. Satisfaction gaps with nine job-specific traits are also estimated. These findings support the encouragement of entrepreneurship by government and private sectors, as well as imparting autonomy and entre... |
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