Job Creation & Job Types - New Evidence from Danish Entrepreneurs (Paperback)

We extend earlier analyses of the job creation of start-ups vs. established firms by taking into consideration the educational content of the jobs created and destroyed. We define education-specific measures of job creation and job destruction at the firm level, and we use these to construct a measure of "surplus job creation" defined as jobs created on top of any simultaneous destruction of similar jobs in incumbent firms in the same region and industry. Using Danish employer-employee data from 2002-7, which identify the start-ups and which cover almost the entire private sector, these measures allow us to provide a more nuanced assessment of the role of entrepreneurial firms in the job-creation process than previous studies. Our findings show that while start-ups are responsible for the entire overall net job creation, incumbents account for more than a third of net job creation within high-skilled jobs. Moreover, start-ups "only" create around half of the surplus jobs, and even less of the high-skilled surplus jobs. Finally, our approach allows us to characterize and identify differences across industries, educational groups and regions.

General

Imprint:	The Rockwool Foundation Research Unit
Country of origin:	Denmark
Release date:	November 2015
Authors:	Johan M. Kuhn • Nikolaj Malchow-Moller • Anders Sorensen
Dimensions:	235 x 170 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	52
ISBN-13:	978-87-931192-7-7
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > Entrepreneurship
LSN:	87-931192-7-5
Barcode:	9788793119277

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