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Income Taxes and Entrepreneurs' Use of Labor
Carroll, Robert - 2000
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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Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2000
affected an individual's place in the earnings distribution. Our basic tack is to follow individuals' positions in the income … earnings distribution relative to those who remained wage earners. On the other hand, for those at the upper end of the … earnings distribution, those who became self-employed often advanced less in the earnings distribution than their salaried …
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The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2000
and earnings. Using 1980 and 1990 Census microdata, we then examine the relationship between changes in immigration and … native self-employment rates and earnings across 132 of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States. We find evidence …-employment earnings. Our findings are similar if we weight immigration rates by the propensity of immigrant groups to be self-employed or …
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Self-Employment in OECD Countries
Blanchflower, David G. - 2000
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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Self-Employment, Family Background, and Race
Hout, Michael - 1999
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...
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Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men : 1910-1990
Fairlie, Robert W. - 1999
-employment. However, more recently the relative earnings of blacks in self-employment rose more than relative earnings for whites the near …
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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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Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed
Agness, Daniel; Baseler, Travis; Chassang, Sylvain; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
People's value for their own time is a key input in evaluating public policies: evaluations should account for time taken away from work or leisure as a result of policy. Using rich choice data collected from farming households in western Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive...
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Structural Change in Labor Supply and Cross-Country Differences in Hours Worked
Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Lagakos, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper studies how structural change in labor supply along the development spectrum shapes cross-country differences in hours worked. We emphasize two main forces: sectoral reallocation from self-employment to wage work, and declining fixed costs of wage work. We show that these forces are...
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The Self-Employment Experience of Immigrants
Borjas, George J. - 1986
Self-employment is an important aspect of the immigrant experience in the labor market. Self-employment rates for immigrants exceed 15 percent for some national groups. This paper addresses three related questions on the self-employment experience of immigrants. First, how do self-employment...
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