(1850)A GENDER APPROACH TO THE SELF-EMPLOYMENT INTENTION:A CASE STUDY OF THE UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATESTUDENTS

摘要

In this work we analyze differences between woman and man on the intention to start a business whilethey are studying at university. We distinguish three different employability itineraries that are typicallypresent in the labor market: (a) Self-employment, (b) Employee in the private sector, and (c)Employee in the public sector (civil servants). We also set apart ten different types of universitystudies which correspond to the casuistry of this case study: the University of Alicante.The objective is to study whether the intention expressed by students to be inserted in each one of thethree different work itineraries shows typical differences between sexes or, on the contrary, there areno differences or they are arbitrary.In addition we will also test if differences are consistent between different groups of degrees. In thisway we will test if the intentions on self-employment and paid employment are a characteristic forgender or they are due to the typical patterns of the groups of university education or a combination ofboth factors.Entrepreneurship has been widely studied considering many factors that influence it: entrepreneurialclimate, occurrence of business failure, causes of business failure, etc. The revision of the literaturehas shown that those factors can be gathering into two different groups: personality traits andenvironmental.We will focus attention on the environmental factors that are related to the labor market segmentation,like wage, atypical work, internal and external labor markets.