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Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Rosen, Harvey S.; Weathers, Robert - 2021

The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the … sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …

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Financial Capital, Human Capital, and the Transition to Self-Employment : Evidence from Intergenerational Links

Dunn, Thomas A.; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2021

The environment for business creation is central to economic policy, as entrepreneurs are believed to be forces of innovation, employment and economic dynamism. We use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) to investigate the relative importance of financial and human capital...

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Health Insurance and the Supply of Entrepreneurs

Holtz-Eakin, Doug - 2016

Some commentators have suggested that the absence of portable health insurance impedes people from leaving their jobs to start new firms. We investigate this belief by comparing wage-earners who become self-employed during a given period of time with their counterparts who do not. By examining...

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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurs' Use of Labor

Carroll, Robert; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Rider, Mark; … - 2021

This paper investigates the effect of entrepreneurs' personal income tax situations on their use of labor. We analyze the income tax returns of a large number of sole proprietors before and after the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and determine how the substantial reductions in marginal tax rates...

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Self-Employment in OECD Countries

Blanchflower, David G. - 2021

This paper describes measurement of a self-employment rate and the important role the agricultural sector plays in any analysis of the determinants of self-employment. The determinants of the self-employment rate are modeled using a panel of 23 countries for the period 1966-1996. A similar...

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An Analysis of the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs on Self-Employment in the Construction Industry

Blanchflower, David G.; Wainwright, Jon S. - 2021

The main findings of this paper are that despite the existence of various affirmative action programs designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction, little has changed in the last twenty five years. We present evidence showing that where race conscious...

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Self-Employment : More May Not Be Better

Blanchflower, David G. - 2021

I present information on self-employment from seventy countries. Self-employment rates are generally down across the OECD. The main exceptions are the UK, and New Zealand. The probability of being self-employed across the OECD is higher for men and for older workers compared with younger...

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A Longitudinal Analysis of Young Entrepreneurs in Australia and the United States

Blanchflower, David G.; Meyer, Bruce D. - 2021

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...

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Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs

Blanchflower, David G. - 2021

n this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper that related to the UK. Data on random samples of approximately twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic...

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Entrepreneurship, Happiness and Supernormal Returns : Evidence from Britain and the Us

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2021

Do entrepreneurs earn supernormal returns, or does competitive pressure ensure that entrepreneurs receive the same utility level as workers? If those who run their own businesses get supernormal returns (or 'rents') they should be happier than those who work as employees. The paper tests this...

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