The Impact of Opportunity and Necessity Based Start-Up on the Choice of an Economic Sector in Tunisia

AbstractIn this paper we studied the relationship between the profile of the business creator and the characteristics of the sector in which he chooses to create his activity in terms of firm size and job creation. The objective is to study the impact of necessity and opportunity motivations on the probability that an individual chooses a particular sector rather than another. Based on a Multinomial Logit analysis of a sample of 420 cases provided by the Tunisian GEM 2012 Project, we can conclude that the necessity and opportunity motivations do not have the same intensity in each economic sector