Similar Search Results

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231200

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013008632

Self-Employment, Family Background, and Race

Hout, Michael; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2021

We focus on the intergenerational transmission of the propensity to be self-employed. Our emphasis is on the role of family background, and in particular, on what we call the intergenerational pick-up rate with respect to self-employment, the probability that a person with a self-employed parent...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218089

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222240

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223317

The Self-Employed are Less Likely to Have Health Insurance than Wage Earners. So What?

Perry, Craig William; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2021

There is considerable public policy concern over the relatively low rates of health insurance coverage among the self-employed in the United States. Presumably, the reason for the concern is that their low rates of insurance lead to worse health outcomes. We use data from the Medical Expenditure...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237925

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237950

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248127

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211660

Insurance and the Utilization of Medical Services Among the Self-Employed

Perry, Craig William; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2021

There has been substantial public policy concern over the relatively low rates of health insurance coverage among the self-employed in the United States. We use data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey conducted in 1996 to analyze how the self-employed and wage-earners differ both with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212884