RT journal article
T1 Does Entrepreneurship Make You Happier? A Comparative Analysis between Entrepreneurs and Wage Earners
A1 Ravina Ripoll, Rafael
A1 Foncubierta Rodríguez, María José
A1 Ahumada-Tello, Eduardo
A1 Tobar-Pesantez, Luis-Bayardo
A2 Organización de Empresas
K1 well-being
K1 entrepreneurship
K1 entrepreneur
K1 wage earner
AB Currently, age is characterized by implementing business management models based onprecarious work and a massive reduction in jobs. This article aims to analyze the degree of happinessperceived in Spanish entrepreneurs, as opposed to that perceived by the employees, and if thathappiness is associated with certain sociodemographic variables (such as gender, level of studies,and income level). For this purpose, a brief literature review of the economy of happiness is carriedout, considering studies regarding the happiness–entrepreneurship connection over the past fewyears. With data provided by the Sociological Research Center (C.I.S.) barometer survey, we work intwo phases: (1) descriptive and inferential on possible associations between the variables, and (2) thecalculation of probabilities through logistic regression. The main result shows that the entrepreneurswith employees are happiest. When the null hypothesis is rejected, the categories that seem to showthe most happiness are those with higher education and those in the highest income ranges analyzed.Among the main limitations in this work is the scarcity of bibliographic production on the subjectmatter of this paper. This paper helps to cover part of this gap.
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2021
FD 2021-09
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/25839
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/25839
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 21-sep-2026