Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Academic member of Bu Ali Sina University, Hamadan.

2 MA of economics, Bu Ali Sina University

Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between the institutional setting, in terms of economic freedom, and entrepreneurship, as measured by self-employment in a panel data setting covering selected countries and the time-period 1990-2009. The measure of economic freedom includes five indices; size of government, the legal structure and security of property rights, access to sound money, the freedom of trade internationally, and the regulation of credit, labor and business. The empirical findings show that a small public sector, better legal structure and security of property rights tend to increase in entrepreneurship. Also, we find that the freedom of trade internationally and less regulation of credit, labor and business is negatively correlated to self-employment rate.

Keywords

اشرف‏زاده، حمیدرضا و نادر مهرگان (1387)، اقتصادسنجی پانل‏دیتا، مؤسسه تحقیقات تعاون دانشگاه تهران، چاپ اول
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