caa a22 4500 445877545 CHVBK 20180317145532.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11187-009-9199-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11187-009-9199-1 Who skims the cream of the Italian graduate crop? Wage employment versus self-employment [Elektronische Daten] [Carolina Castagnetti, Luisa Rosti] This paper tests whether academic achievement is a significant determinant of employment status in the Italian labor market: are new entrepreneurs selected from the top or bottom end of the graduate ability distribution? Is the cream of the graduate crop pulled into self-employment by the higher expected earnings or are individuals with lower degree score pushed into entrepreneurship by poor alternatives? Our data show a strong negative relation between academic achievement and self-employment status, i.e., we find skimming of the best graduates into wage and salary work. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2009 Self-employment nationallicence Education nationallicence Wage return nationallicence Italy nationallicence Castagnetti Carolina University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy aut Rosti Luisa University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy aut Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 36/2(2011-02-01), 223-234 0921-898X 36:2<223 2011 36 11187 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-009-9199-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-009-9199-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Castagnetti Carolina University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rosti Luisa University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 36/2(2011-02-01), 223-234 0921-898X 36:2<223 2011 36 11187 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer