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Business income dynamics and labor market fluidity
Hyatt, Henry R.; Murray, Seth; Sandusky, Kristin - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 10 (2021) 1, pp. 1-51
The share of the U.S. population that receives business income has increased substantially in recent decades. At the same time, worker hire and separation rates declined, with worrying implications for productivity and wage growth. In this paper, we explore the relationship between business...
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The short-term effect of COVID-19 on self-employed workers in Canada
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020
Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...
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Canadian small businesses' employees and owners during COVID-19
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020
Canadian employers are largely small businesses. Their relevance for job creation and labour demand is integral for policymakers concerned with adverse labour market outcomes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) we document how the self-employed,...
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Job training, remote working, and self-employment : displaced workers beyond employment hysteresis
Focacci, Chiara Natalie; Santarelli, Enrico - 2021
The recent SARS-Cov-2 pandemic has contributed to several corporate crises. As a result, many Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Italy have filed for bankruptcy in the first quarter of 2020. In addition to a gigantic macroeconomic effect, the lockdown has impacted individuals to a...
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Self-employed immigrants and their employees: Evidence from Swedish employer-employee data
Hammarstedt, Mats; Miao, Chizheng - 2018
We present a study of immigrant self-employment in Sweden using the recent matched employer-employee data from 2014. We …
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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium
Clark, Andrew E. - 2009
This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It … than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as …
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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium
Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2009
This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It … than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794111
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Self-employed immigrants and their employees : evidence from Swedish employer-employee data
Hammarstedt, Mats; Miao, Chizheng - 2018
We present a study of immigrant self-employment in Sweden using the recent matched employer-employee data from 2014. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911143
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The Ins and Outs of Self-Employment : An Estimate of Business Cycle and Trend Effects
Schweitzer, Mark - 2016
We examine quarterly microlevel data on labor market transitions taken from the Current Population Survey from 1990 to …-employment entry and exit. Falling demand leads to an increase in exit from entrepreneurship, but has countervailing effects on entry …. While a decrease in demand leads to a decrease in the opportunity cost of entry into entrepreneurship by increasing the rate …
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Work, Jobs And Well-Being Across the Millennium
Clark, Andrew E. - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2009
This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It … than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914743