The Decline and Rise of Self-Employment
Indications are that the long-term decline of self-employment has come to a halt in the 1970s in the advanced industrialized economies. In this paper, we challenge the currently popular argument that the recent revival of self-employment represents an effective answer to the problems of slow economic growth and unemployment. Our time-series regression analysis of aggregate self-employment rates in eight major OECD countries from the early 1950s to 1987 suggests that rising self-employment may be a response to deficiencies in labour markets rather than a sign of economic vitality.
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1991
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Authors: | Bögenhold, Dieter ; Staber, Udo |
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Work, Employment & Society. - British Sociological Association. - Vol. 5.1991, 2, p. 223-239
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British Sociological Association |
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