Michael A Nolan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5918397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael A Nolan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael A |
| FAMILY NAME | Nolan |
| SIGNATURE | NOLAN M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6168-3448 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Income Status and Life Satisfaction
The importance of both income rank and relative income, as indicators of status, has long been recognised in the literature on life satisfaction and happiness. Recently, several authors have made explicit comparisons of the relative importance of these two measures of income status, and concluded that rank dominates to the extent that reference income becomes insignificant in regressions including both these explanatory variables, and that even a…
In Defence of Labour Market Institutions
What makes a die-hard entrepreneur? Beyond the ‘employee or entrepreneur’ dichotomy
The article makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment and as a result avoids the weakness of approaches which categorise an individual as an entrepreneur by observing their occupation at just one point in their career. We outline an econometric methodology to account for this approach and find, via a statisti…
Is there a North–South Divide in Self-employment in England
n Using decomposition analysis, the paper investigates why Northern England has fewer but higher performing self-employed individuals than the South. We find the causes are mainly structural differences rather than regional variation in individual characteristics. There are more self employed individuals in the South, but on average they create fewer jobs. Post compulsory education has a strong negative effect on the probability of self employmen…
Self-employment Wealth and Job Creation
Is there a North–South Divide in Self-employment in England
n Using decomposition analysis, the paper investigates why Northern England has fewer but higher performing self-employed individuals than the South. We find the causes are mainly structural differences rather than regional variation in individual characteristics. There are more self employed individuals in the South, but on average they create fewer jobs. Post compulsory education has a strong negative effect on the probability of self employmen…
Self-employment Wealth and Job Creation
In Defence of Labour Market Institutions
What makes a die-hard entrepreneur? Beyond the ‘employee or entrepreneur’ dichotomy
The article makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment and as a result avoids the weakness of approaches which categorise an individual as an entrepreneur by observing their occupation at just one point in their career. We outline an econometric methodology to account for this approach and find, via a statisti…
Is there a North–South Divide in Self-employment in England
n Using decomposition analysis, the paper investigates why Northern England has fewer but higher performing self-employed individuals than the South. We find the causes are mainly structural differences rather than regional variation in individual characteristics. There are more self employed individuals in the South, but on average they create fewer jobs. Post compulsory education has a strong negative effect on the probability of self employmen…
Income Status and Life Satisfaction
The importance of both income rank and relative income, as indicators of status, has long been recognised in the literature on life satisfaction and happiness. Recently, several authors have made explicit comparisons of the relative importance of these two measures of income status, and concluded that rank dominates to the extent that reference income becomes insignificant in regressions including both these explanatory variables, and that even a…
Economics (4 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Entrepreneurship (2 works) · Family Business Performance and Succession (2 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)