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The Transformation of Self Employment
Colaiacovo, Innessa; Dalton, Margaret G.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Over the past half-century, while self-employment has consistently accounted for around one in ten of the United States workforce, its composition has changed. Since 1970, industries with high startup capital requirements have declined from 53% of self-employment to 23%. This same time period...
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Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs
Blanchflower, David G. - 2008
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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Mexican Entrepreneurship : A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States
Fairlie, Robert - 2005
Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. But in the U.S. rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor...
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A Longitudinal Analysis of Young Entrepreneurs in Australia and the United States
Blanchflower, David G. - 1991
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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The Independent Contractor Workforce : New Evidence On Its Size and Composition and Ways to Improve Its Measurement in Household Surveys
Abraham, Katharine G.; Hershbein, Brad; Houseman, Susan N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive, with household survey and … employees in conventional household survey data and those who are independent contractors in a secondary work activity. We find … of the independent contractor workforce. Our research indicates that probing in household surveys to clarify a worker …
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Independent Contracting, Self-Employment, and Gig Work : Evidence from California Tax Data
Bernhardt, Annette; Campos, Christopher; Prohofsky, Allen; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use de-identified data from California personal income tax returns to measure the frequency and nature of independent contracting and self-employment work in California. We identify this work by the presence of a Schedule C on the tax return and/or the receipt of a Form 1099 information...
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New Gig Work or Changes in Reporting? Understanding Self-Employment Trends in Tax Data
Garin, Andrew; Jackson, Emilie; Koustas, Dmitri - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Rising self-employment rates in U.S. tax data that are absent in survey data have led to speculation that tax records capture a rise in new "gig" work that surveys miss. Drawing on the universe of IRS tax returns, we show that trends in firm-reported payments to "gig" and other contract workers...
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The Impact of Incarceration on Employment, Earnings, and Tax Filing
Garin, Andrew; Koustas, Dmitri; McPherson, Carl; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the effect of incarceration on wages, self-employment, and taxes and transfers in North Carolina and Ohio using two quasi-experimental research designs: discontinuities in sentencing guidelines and random assignment to judges. Across both states, incarceration generates short-term drops...
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Taxation and Household Portfolio Composition : U.S. Evidence from the 1980s and 1990s
Poterba, James M. - 1999
This paper explores the relationship between household marginal income tax rates, the set of assets that households own … surveys. The empirical findings suggest that a household's marginal tax rate has an important effect its asset allocation … decisions. The probability that a household owns tax-advantaged assets is strongly related to its tax rate on ordinary income …
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The Effect of Principal Reduction on Household Distress : Evidence from Mortgage Cramdown
Cespedes, Jacelly C.; Parra, Carlos R.; Sialm, Clemens - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Mortgage cramdown enabled bankruptcy judges to discharge the underwater portion of a mortgage during Chapter 13 bankruptcy before the Supreme Court disallowed this practice in 1993. We exploit the random assignment of cases to judges to quantify the ex-post effects of Chapter 13 bankruptcy over...
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