2009-10-01
Time allocation by the self-employed
Publication
Publication
The determinants of the number of working hours in start-ups
Applied Economics Letters , Volume 16 - Issue 15 p. 1511- 1515
This article examines determinants of working hours by self-employed, explicitly discriminating between preference and productivity effects. A simple model of working hours is derived, not requiring expected profit data. The model is estimated using data from a Dutch survey of 1350 start-ups. Outsourcing and number of employees appear related to both preference and productivity. The model has out-of-sample predictive power for the number of working hours.
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| doi.org/10.1080/13504850701580542, hdl.handle.net/1765/57814 | |
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| Organisation | Erasmus Research Institute of Management |
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Carree, M., & Verheul, I. (2009). Time allocation by the self-employed: The determinants of the number of working hours in start-ups. Applied Economics Letters, 16(15), 1511–1515. doi:10.1080/13504850701580542 |
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