Article(electronic)#1February 2018
Collective Commitment
In: Journal of political economy, Volume 126, Issue 1, p. 347-380
ISSN: 1537-534X
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In: Journal of political economy, Volume 126, Issue 1, p. 347-380
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: Economica, Volume 82, Issue 325, p. 137-161
ISSN: 1468-0335
We examine whether having previously been self‐employed is a negative signal on the job market. In a UK field experiment where two applications of otherwise equally qualified individuals were sent out in response to the same vacancies in human resource management, we find that entrepreneurs systematically receive fewer responses than non‐entrepreneurs. Empirical studies that treat market wages as the opportunity cost of remaining self‐employed are therefore likely to overestimate alternative earnings to entrepreneurship.