caa a22 4500 445877723 CHVBK 20180317145532.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11187-011-9376-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11187-011-9376-x Özcan Berkay Department of Social Policy, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton St, WC2A 2AE, London, UK aut Only the lonely? The influence of the spouse on the transition to self-employment [Elektronische Daten] [Berkay Özcan] Previous research showed that married individuals are overrepresented among the self-employed. Few studies proposed skill-spillover between the spouses within the marriage as an explanation. This paper deviates from the previous research by exploring different relationship contexts (e.g., cohabitation, being married or divorced, a widow(er) or single) and the role of partner influences under these contexts. It argues that the interaction between gender and relationship status implies variation in not only resources but also constraints, and hence sorts individuals into two different types of self-employment: entrepreneurial self-employment (i.e., incorporated business) and unincorporated self-employment. Using "Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) 1965-2005” data, results of the competing risk models show that marital status contributes to both types of self-employment transitions, especially for men, but also for women. Cohabitation is a less supportive context for entrepreneurship and a partner's self-employment experience increases only women's likelihood of entering into entrepreneurship. These results suggest that skill-spillover between partners might be context dependent and only in one direction (from men to women). Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2011 Entrepreneurship nationallicence Gender nationallicence Occupation choice nationallicence Family nationallicence Marriage nationallicence Cohabitation nationallicence Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2011-11-01), 465-492 0921-898X 37:4<465 2011 37 11187 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-011-9376-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-011-9376-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Özcan Berkay Department of Social Policy, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton St, WC2A 2AE, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/4(2011-11-01), 465-492 0921-898X 37:4<465 2011 37 11187 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer