<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The self-employment occupational status has a determinant role in the entrepreneurship development, including generally almost all sectors of the national economy. In this paper, we will focus on this topic. The statistical analysis of this occupational status and its implications on entrepreneurship in Romania in 2015 were considered based on the INSE statistical database, followed by an analysis based on a GEM 2015 (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) database regarding the main factors influencing early-stage entrepreneurship. To describe the start-up intention and start-up effort, setting out from the literature, we included a set of indicators into the logistic regression analysis as follows: age, income, gender, education, working status, existence of entrepreneur acquaintances, confidence in one’s own knowledge, skill, and experience, completing the set with the presence of self-employment, as new research suggests it.</p></abstract>

The self-employment occupational status has a determinant role in the entrepreneurship development, including generally almost all sectors of the national economy. In this paper, we will focus on this topic. The statistical analysis of this occupational status and its implications on entrepreneurship in Romania in 2015 were considered based on the INSE statistical database, followed by an analysis based on a GEM 2015 (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) database regarding the main factors influencing early-stage entrepreneurship. To describe the start-up intention and start-up effort, setting out from the literature, we included a set of indicators into the logistic regression analysis as follows: age, income, gender, education, working status, existence of entrepreneur acquaintances, confidence in one’s own knowledge, skill, and experience, completing the set with the presence of self-employment, as new research suggests it.

The Influence of Self-Employment on Early-Stage Entrepreneurship in Romania. A Global Entrepreneurship Monitor-Based Analysis

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Economics and Business Administration in Hungarian Language

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Economics and Business

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The self-employment occupational status has a determinant role in the entrepreneurship development, including generally almost all sectors of the national...

The Influence of Self-Employment on Early-Stage Entrepreneurship in Romania. A Global Entrepreneurship Monitor-Based Analysis

Data publikacji: 16 gru 2019

Zakres stron: 23 - 35

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/auseb-2019-0002

Słowa kluczowe
entrepreneurship, self-employment, occupational choice, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)

© 2019 Lehel Györfy et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Influence of Self-Employment on Early-Stage Entrepreneurship in Romania. A Global Entrepreneurship Monitor-Based Analysis

Data publikacji: 16 gru 2019

Zakres stron: 23 - 35

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/auseb-2019-0002

Słowa kluczoweentrepreneurship, self-employment, occupational choice, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)

© 2019 Lehel Györfy et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
entrepreneurship, self-employment, occupational choice, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)