Latent entrepreneurship: the effects of the type of formal education on youth self-employment

• Autor(a) principal: Caria, Ana Margarida Proença
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/15744
• topic: Latent entrepreneurship; Youth self-employment; Type of education; Formal education; Economia; Empreendedorismo; Emprego; Jovem; Educação formal

Entrepreneurship and its drivers analysis has been a hot topic in recent economic literature. Using theoretical concepts of the individual factors impacting the probability of individual’s occupational choice decision, this study aims to examine whether the type of education impacts the probability of an individual to be willing to pursue self-employment. Through the development of a comprehensive survey, this study uses its own data set to understand whether entrepreneurial training and experience influence individual’s entrepreneurial intentions. A Survey inspired in the Flash Barometer 2000/2004 was constructed to develop our data set including 521 students from all four schools within ISCTE-IUL (Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa – Instíuto Universitário de Lisboa). The data set is used to test three models under three different hypothesis. The first model is generated under the hypothesis of whether students from different schools have different entrepreneurial intentions. The second and third, under the hypothesis of whether previous entrepreneurial subjects and entrepreneurial experience impacts student’s entrepreneurial intentions, respectively. Binary logistic regressions are used to perform the analysis of these models. The study does not find support for any of the hypotheses. Such results highlight the need to further develop the literature on this topic, complementing it with different variables and testing it with innovative econometric methods. In addition, to remove possible biases giving our narrow sample and its characteristics, one must suggest the need to test these findings for a more broad data with cross-country analysis.