, employment, payroll, profits and industry) from these datasets is contained in Fairlie and Robb (2008). …

In this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is … (ACS). In contrast to the official definition of self-employment which simply counts the numbers of unincorporated self … self-employment for the US as a whole as well as in construction. Construction is particularly important given that it …

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …) constraints faced by entrepreneurs when optimizing the profitable employment of their education. Entrepreneurs have more personal … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. …

It is often claimed that small and young firms account for a disproportionately large share of net employment growth …. We conduct a meta analysis of the empirical evidence regarding whether net employment growth rather is generated by a few …

types of new firms, particularly if their parent firm continues to operate. A novel findings is that the rate of employment …