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Quality Over Quantity: Reexamining the Link Between Entrepreneurship and Job Creation

dc.contributor.authorLitwin, Adam Seth
dc.contributor.authorPhan, Philip H.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-17T17:30:14Z
dc.date.available2020-11-17T17:30:14Z
dc.date.issued2013-07-01
dc.description.abstractAlthough much has been written about the quantity of jobs created by entrepreneurs, scholars have yet to examine the quality of these jobs. In this article, the authors begin to address this important issue by examining nearly 5,000 businesses that began operations in 2004. They investigate the extent to which nascent employers provide what many think of as quality jobs—those offering health care coverage and a retirement plan. The authors find that because of small scale, constrained resources, and protection from institutional pressures, start-up companies do not provide their employees with either of these proxies for job quality, and their likelihood of offering health or retirement benefits increases only marginally over their first six years of operation. The finding that entrepreneurs’ impressive record of job creation is not matched by a similarly impressive outcome with respect to job quality challenges policymakers to ensure that entrepreneurs are encouraged to create quality employment opportunities in the course of creating new businesses.
dc.description.legacydownloadsLitwin3_Quality_over_quantity.pdf: 470 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020.
dc.identifier.other7877151
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/75996
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.rightsRequired Publisher Statement: © Cornell University. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.
dc.subjectentrepreneurship
dc.subjectjob creation
dc.subjectjob quality
dc.subjectjob quantity
dc.subjectemployee benefits
dc.titleQuality Over Quantity: Reexamining the Link Between Entrepreneurship and Job Creation
dc.typearticle
local.authorAffiliationLitwin, Adam Seth: aslitwin@cornell.edu Cornell University
local.authorAffiliationPhan, Philip H.: Johns Hopkins University

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