Beyond The Wage Worker Vs. Entrepreneur Dichotomy: Distinguishing Between
Entrepreneurial Persistence And Types

The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. While results indicate that this existing literature is good at explaining an individual’s propensity for self-employment, we find that entrepreneurial persistence is determined by a different model and unearth some new insights into the roles of early career experience, finance, role models, gender and the unemployment push effect.