Is inequality bad for business?
Subtitle: a nonlinear microeconomic model of wealth effects on self-employment
By: Alice Mesnard, Martin Ravallion.
Contributors: Ravallion, Martin.; World Bank. Development Research Group. Poverty and Human Resources.
Series: Policy research working paper ;; 2527; Policy research working papers (Online) ;; 2527.
Publisher: World Bank, Development Research Group, Poverty and Human Resources
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Entrepreneurship -- Tunisia.; Income distribution -- Tunisia.; Small business -- Tunisia.; Wealth -- Tunisia.
Other titles: Nonlinear microeconomic model of wealth effects on self-employment
Description: Data on occupational choice among return migrants in Tunisia reveal that higher inequality of wealth reduces the level of new business activity. The effect is not large, however. Even dramatic redistributions of wealth would not provide much stimulus to entrepreneurship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-23).
Title from title screen as viewed on Sept. 23, 2002.
"January 2001"--Cover.
Also available in print.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.