Entrepreneurship and income inequality in southern Ethiopia

Ayal Kimhi

doi:10.1007/s11187-009-9196-4

Entrepreneurship and income inequality in southern Ethiopia

Ayal Kimhi^*

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Department of Environmental Economics and Management

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Abstract

This article uses inequality decomposition techniques in order to analyze the consequences of entrepreneurial activities to household income inequality in southern Ethiopia. A uniform increase in entrepreneurial income reduces per capita household income inequality. This implies that encouraging rural entrepreneurship may be favorable for both income growth and income distribution. Such policies could be particularly successful if directed at the low-income, low-wealth, and relatively uneducated segments of the society.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	81-91
Number of pages	11
Journal	Small Business Economics
Volume	34
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-009-9196-4
State	Published - Jan 2010

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Acknowledgements This research was supported by NIRP, the Netherlands–Israel Development Research Programme, and by the Center for Agricultural Economic Research. This article benefited from valuable suggestions by Tony Shorrocks, Wim Naudé, two anonymous referees, and participants of the UNU-WIDER workshop on Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Concepts, Measurements, and Impacts, held 21–23 August 2008 in Helsinki.

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Africa
Entrepreneurship
Ethiopia
Income inequality
Redistribution

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