Does Labor Diversity Promote Entrepreneurship?

Marianna Marino, Pierpaolo Parrotta and Dario Pozzoli

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University

Abstract: We find evidence that workforce educational diversity promotes entrepreneurial behavior of employees as well as the formation of new firms, whereas diversity in demographics hinders transitions to selfemployment. Ethnic diversity favors entrepreneurship in financial and business services.

Keywords: Labor diversity; entrepreneurship; transitions to self-employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C26 J24 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10
Date: 2012-01-04
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