Mobility and entrepreneurship in Ecuador: A dynamic pseudo-panel approach

• Xabier Ordeñana ^[1] ; Ramón Villa ^[1]
  1. [1] Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral

     Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral

     Guayaquil, Ecuador

     
• Localización: Latin American Journal of Economics: formerly Cuadernos de Economía, ISSN-e 0719-0433, Vol. 51, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 307-341
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.7764/laje.51.2.307
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  • Does entrepreneurship contribute to improving social mobility in Ecuador? This paper constructs a pseudo-panel to analyze the dynamic ef fect of entrepreneurship on Ecuadorian household incomes during the period 2002- 2010. Using dynamic panel estimation techniques and three estimation scenarios, the paper finds a significant level of unconditional mobility and an important ef fect of entrepreneurship (conditional mobility).