Intergenerational Transmission of Self-Employed Status and Informal Production Units Performance in Cameroon
Posted: 25 Sep 2013 Last revised: 26 Sep 2013
Date Written: 2013
Abstract
This study aims to contribute to the debate on the determinants of the informal firms’ outcomes by focusing on the potential influence that the family background can have on informal business outcomes in Cameroon. Using data from the Survey on Employment and the Informal Sector (SESI 2) in Cameroun, this study shows that children of self-employed father and/or mother have a better value added, sales in some cases, than entrepreneur that parents does not have this status. This comparative advantage is strengthened when the transmission is between a father and his son or when the child, regardless of gender, is engaged in the same branch of activity as his parent(s). This transmission consists of the dissemination of a stock of human capital in the form of specific skills.
Keywords: Intergenerational transmission, second-generation entrepreneur, informal firm, business outcomes
JEL Classification: L26, J24
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