Intergenerational Transmission of Self-Employed Status and Informal Production Units Performance in Cameroon

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 Last revised: 26 Sep 2013

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Mboutchouang Vincent de Paul

University of Yaounde II

Kenneck Joseph Massil

Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas

Mbenga Bindop Kunz Modeste

University of Yaounde II

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

Suggested Citation

Vincent de Paul, Mboutchouang and Joseph Massil, Kenneck and Kunz Modeste, Mbenga Bindop, Intergenerational Transmission of Self-Employed Status and Informal Production Units Performance in Cameroon (2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2329945

Mboutchouang Vincent de Paul

University of Yaounde II ( email )

1365 Yaounde
Yaounde, Center 00237
Cameroon

Kenneck Joseph Massil (Contact Author)

Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas ( email )

12 Place Panthéon
Paris, 75005
France

Mbenga Bindop Kunz Modeste

University of Yaounde II ( email )

1365 Yaounde
Yaounde, Center 00237
Cameroon

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