When Do Employees Leave Their Job for Entrepreneurship?*
利用芬兰大型雇主-雇员匹配数据，研究了哪些类型的企业更容易催生新创业者，发现小企业更频繁地产生创业者，且企业研发强度和生产率与员工创业概率负相关。
Abstract Existing firms are argued to be an important source of new entrepreneurs. Yet, relatively little is known about the characteristics of firms that breed new entrepreneurs. We use a large linked employee–employer dataset to trace and characterize the types of firms which generate new entrepreneurs in Finland. We find that such transitions are rare and that smaller firms spawn new entrepreneurs more frequently than larger firms. We also find that firms' R&D intensity and, to a lesser extent, their productivity are negatively related to the probability that employees transit into entrepreneurship. These results are robust to controlling for a number of employee and employer attributes.