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Entrepreneurial success and occupational inheritance among proprietors

Lentz, B. F., & Laband, D. N. (1990)

Canadian Journal of Economics, 23(3), 563-579

Roughly half of self-employed proprietors are second-generation; informal experience gained growing up in a family business substitutes for schooling and predicts greater proprietary success. (Abstract source: EconPapers/RePEc.)

Sourcedoi:10.2307/135648280 citations (OpenAlex)

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Lentz, B. F., & Laband, D. N. (1990). Entrepreneurial success and occupational inheritance among proprietors. Canadian Journal of Economics, 23(3), 563-579.

https://doi.org/10.2307/135648

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