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dc.titleIs Entrepreneurship a Channel of Social Mobility in Latin America?
dc.contributor.authorCastellani, Francesca
dc.contributor.authorLora, Eduardo
dc.contributor.orgunitCountry Office in Colombia
dc.coverageColombia
dc.coverageEcuador
dc.coverageMexico
dc.coverageUruguay
dc.coverageLatin America
dc.date.available2013-07-26T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2013-07-22T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.format.extent21
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011479
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Is-Entrepreneurship-a-Channel-of-Social-Mobility-in-Latin-America.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectIncome, Consumption and Saving
dc.subjectBusiness Development
dc.subjectSocial Development
dc.subject.jelcodeE21 - Consumption • Saving • Wealth
dc.subject.jelcodeI31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
dc.subject.jelcodeO15 - Human Resources • Human Development • Income Distribution • Migration
dc.subject.keywordssocial mobility
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberWorking Papers
idb.operationRG-T1924;RG-T1989
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