Stars and Misfits: Self-Employment and Labor Market Frictions
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Stars and Misfits: Self-Employment and Labor Market Frictions
Recent evidence has shown that entrants into self-employment are disproportionately drawn from the tails of the earnings and ability distributions. This observation is explained by a multi-task model of occupational choice in which frictions in the labor market induces mismatches between firms and workers, and mis-assignment of workers to tasks. The model also yields distinctive predictions rel...
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عنوان ژورنال: Management Science
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0025-1909,1526-5501
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1400