TY  - GEN
AU  - Castellani, Francesca
AU  - Lora, Eduardo
TI  - Is Entrepreneurship a Channel of Social Mobility in Latin America?
PY  - 2013
Y1  - 2013/07/26
DO  - 10.18235/0011479
AB  - This paper provides a summary of the findings contained in a forthcoming issue of the Latin American Journal of Economics on entrepreneurship in Latin America as a vehicle for upward social mobility, especially for the middle class. The income persistence coefficients estimated with pseudo-panel data for Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay indicate that entrepreneurial activity is a channel of intergenerational mobility, while the estimates of asset persistence for Mexico using a special survey show that entrepreneurship increases mobility across generations. Although persistence coefficients do not indicate the direction of such mobility, the estimates of income differentials between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs for Ecuador and Mexico lend support to the hypothesis that upward mobility dominates.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18235/0011479
ER  -