Experimenting with entrepreneurship: The Effect of job-protected leave
Authors: Joshua D. Gottlieb, Richard R. Townsend, and Ting Xu
Overview
Abstract (English)
Do potential entrepreneurs remain in wage employment because of the danger that they will face worse job opportunities should their entrepreneurial ventures fail? Using a Canadian reform that extended job-protected leave to one year for women giving birth after a cutoff date, we study whether the option to return to a previous job increases entrepreneurship. A regression discontinuity design reveals that longer job-protected leave increases entrepreneurship by 1.8 percentage points. The results are driven by more educated entrepreneurs, starting firms that survive at least five years and hire paid employees, in industries where experimentation is more valuable.
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Details
Type | Working paper (online) |
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Author | Joshua D. Gottlieb, Richard R. Townsend, and Ting Xu |
Publication Year | 2016 |
Title | Experimenting with entrepreneurship: The Effect of job-protected leave |
Series | NBER Working Paper |
Number | 22446 |
City | Boston, MA |
Institution | National Bureau of Economic Research |
Publication Language | English |
- Joshua D. Gottlieb
- Working paper (online)
- Experimenting with entrepreneurship: The Effect of job-protected leave
- Joshua D. Gottlieb, Richard R. Townsend, and Ting Xu
- NBER Working Paper
- 2016
- 22446