A Longitudinal Analysis of the Young Self-Employed in Australia and the United States.
This paper examines the pattern of self-employment in Australia and the United States. We particularly focus on the movement of young people in and out of self-employment using comparable longitudinal data from the two countries. We find that the forces that influence whether a person becomes self-employed are broadly similar: in both countries skilled manual workers, males and older workers were particularly likely to move to self-employment. We also find that previous earnings are important determinants of transitions to self-employment. The main difference we observe is that additional years of schooling had a positive impact on the probability of being self-employed in the US but were not a significant influence in Australia. However, the factors influencing the probability of leaving self-employment are different across the two countries. Copyright 1994 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1994
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Authors: | Blanchflower, David G ; Meyer, Bruce D |
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Small Business Economics. - Springer. - Vol. 6.1994, 1, p. 1-19
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