Education and Regional Job Creation by the Self-Employed: The English North-South Divide

Using decomposition analysis, the paper investigates the reasons why Northern England has less but higher perfoming self-employed business than the South. It finds the causes are mainly structural differences rather than due to regional variation in people's characteristics..

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Year of publication:	2006-03-01
Authors:	Burke, Andrew E. ; FitzRoy, Felix R. ; Nolan, Michael A.
Institutions:	Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena>
Subject:	Arbeit \| Labor \| Dekomposition \| Selbständige Arbeit

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Extent:	830464 bytes 31 p. application/pdf
Series:	Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik - Abteilung Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy Discussion Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy ; 0706
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	J23 - Employment Determination; Job Creation; Demand for Labor; Self-Employment ; R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes ; R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population ; Ergonomic job analysis ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; United Kingdom
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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