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Entrepreneurship, Saving and Social Mobility (1999)
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@MISC{Quadrini99entrepreneurship,saving,
author = {Vincenzo Quadrini},
title = {Entrepreneurship, Saving and Social Mobility},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
This paper examines entrepreneurship in order to analyze, first, the degree to which the opportunity to start or own a business affects the household’s saving behavior and the implication of this behavior for the distribution of wealth and, second, the relationship between the extent of entrepreneurship in the economy and socioeconomic mobility, that is, the movement of families across wealth classes over time. First, a number of stylized facts based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Survey of Consumer Finances are outlined. They show relevant differences in asset holdings and wealth mobility between entrepreneurs and workers. Second, a dynamic general equilibrium model with an explicit formalization of the entrepreneurial choice is developed. Through the modeling of the entrepreneurial activities, the model generates a concentration of wealth similar to the one observed in the U. S. economy and it replicates the main patterns of wealth mobility in which entrepreneurs experience higher upward mobility than workers.
Keyphrases
social mobility wealth mobility explicit formalization wealth class entrepreneurial choice panel study consumer finance income dynamic socioeconomic mobility asset holding relevant difference stylized fact main pattern dynamic general equilibrium model upward mobility entrepreneurial activity
