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Entrepreneurship Drivers in the Non-farming Sector: Rural-Urban Contrast

The Ethiopian Journal of Business and Economics

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Title Entrepreneurship Drivers in the Non-farming Sector: Rural-Urban Contrast
 
Creator Ejigu, Abebe
Teklemariam, Dereje
 
Subject Entrepreneurship; Non-farming; Rural; Urban; Drivers
 
Description Using data from 5262 households, we explored entrepreneurial drivers in the non-farm sector. Marital status, religion, ethnicity, education type and the size of the household plays different roles for rural and urban households’ engagement in non-farm enterprises. In both urban and rural areas, household size is a driver to non-farm enterprise engagement. Shocks in the household such as illness drive rural households to engage in the non-farm enterprise sector. However, drought restrains the participation of rural households in nonfarm businesses. Divorced households engage more in enterprises. Unmarried households, however, witnessed less involvement in the sector and it is significant for rural households. Urban illiteracy and rural primary education significantly determine households’ involvement in the non-formal sectors. Moreover, the study identified a non-linear relationship between age and enterprise engagement where engagement in non-farm enterprises increases with age up to 58 years and then declines and it is significant for urban households. In the case of urban households, male-headed households are driven to non-farm engagement. Understanding variations in marital status, socio-economic make-ups, entrepreneurial training, and education can be plausible areas of intervention to adequately understand both the entrepreneurial ecosystem and strengthen the non-farming entrepreneurial sector livelihood.
 
Publisher College of Business and Economics, Addis Ababa University
 
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Date 2019-03-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ejbe/article/view/184943
10.4314/ejbe.v6i2.5
 
Source Ethiopian Journal of Business and Economics (The); Vol 6, No 2 (2016); 233-260
2410-2393
2311-9772
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ejbe/article/view/184943/174280
 
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