The Role of Entrepreneurship in Economic Inequality
A Review and Future Research Agenda
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.210601.071How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Entrepreneurship, Economic Inequality, Emerging Economies, Literature Review, Quantitative Analysis
- Abstract
This paper seeks to examine the role of entrepreneurship in economic inequality, whether entrepreneurial activities reduce or increase economic inequality. After clarifying the related concepts, we conducted both qualitative and quantitative analyses to evaluate the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic inequality. We summarized 313 articles and performed correlation analysis using collected data in ten typical countries in both emerging and mature economies. Our findings show that the role of entrepreneurship varies depending on the degree of economic development. Specifically, entrepreneurship can help reduce economic inequality in emerging economies, and might widen economic inequality in mature economies.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Fungleong Chan PY - 2021 DA - 2021/06/02 TI - The Role of Entrepreneurship in Economic Inequality BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Enterprise Management and Economic Development (ICEMED 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 400 EP - 405 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210601.071 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210601.071 ID - Chan2021 ER -