Self-employment and entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets ☆

Volume: 84, Pages: 67 - 85
Published: Nov 1, 2014
Abstract
We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and innovation – in urban and rural labour markets. In order to do so, we combine individual and firm-level data for Britain aggregated at the Travel-to-Work Area level. We find that a higher incidence of self-employment positively and strongly correlates with business creation and innovation in urban areas, but not in rural areas....
Paper Details
Title
Self-employment and entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets ☆
Published Date
Nov 1, 2014
Volume
84
Pages
67 - 85
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