Geography of entrepreneurship : non-farm proprietorship by U.S. county – key predictors
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Nichole M. Bignall (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Keith Debbage
Abstract: This three-article dissertation explores the geography of non-farm proprietorship (NFP) employment by U.S. County in 2016. NFP employment continues to be an important and emerging research area in the field of entrepreneurship. All three articles used data collected from the U.S. Census and Bureau of Economic Analysis and focused on identifying the key predictors that best explained why certain counties generated high shares of NFP employment. A stepwise regression analysis was conducted at three forms of county typologies; the 800 most populated counties in the U.S., 107 micropolitan counties, and 71 outlying metropolitan counties. All three articles supported the idea that the geography of entrepreneurship is unevenly distributed by county. In each regression analysis, it appeared that the employment composition of the local labor pool played a more powerful role in shaping the geography of NFP than more aggregate socio-economic metrics like per capita income, level of education or median household income. Key predictors included the share of the labor pool employed in real estate, rental and leasing (RRL) employment and construction employment which featured prominently in the final regression models in all three articles. RRL and construction employment may be a proxy for access to a particular type of capital for NFP workers that is tied to vibrant, growing land markets. The findings provide a disaggregated analysis at different county typologies that can help policymakers to better understand the key predictors that drive the local choices of entrepreneurs and help communities build more competitive local economies.
Geography of entrepreneurship : non-farm proprietorship by U.S. county – key predictors
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 2021
- Keywords
- County, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Micropolitan County, Non-farm Proprietorship, Outlying Metropolitan County
- Subjects
- Entrepreneurship $z United States
- Industrial location $z United States
- United States $x Economic conditions