Namatovu, RebeccaDawa, Samuel2023-01-072023-01-072017Namatovu, R. and Dawa, S. (2017) ‘Motivation, competences and the moderating role of business discontinuance on the entrepreneurial effect of self-employment’, Int. J. Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp.410–426.https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJESB.2017.081949https://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/6846This paper interrogates the dynamic relationship between motivation, competences, business discontinuance and the entrepreneurial effect. Arguing that self-employment has the potential to reduce unemployment in subsequent periods, this study uses mixed models to exhibit the moderating role of business discontinuation on the entrepreneurial effects of self-employment. It depicts this with data from 2013 on 10,003 youth entrepreneurs from nine Sub-Saharan countries. The empirical results confirm the existence of a significant moderating effect on motivation and the entrepreneurial effect. We also find that this effect is higher in younger males with more years of formal education.enEntrepreneurial effectMotivationCompetenceSelf-employmentBusiness discontinuanceArticle