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Self-employment and local economic performance: Evidence from US counties* Self-employment and local economic performance: Evidence from US counties.
- Source :
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Papers in Regional Science . Mar2013, Vol. 92 Issue 1, p141-161. 21p. 6 Charts, 1 Graph, 1 Map. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- This study explores the relationship between self-employment and income growth, employment growth, and change in poverty in metro and non-metro areas in the United States using county-level panel data. We investigate the impact of the relative size of the self-employment sector measured by the share of non-farm proprietorships (NFPs) in total full and part-time employment on three key economic performance indicators. We first estimate an income growth model to analyse the effects of self-employment on income growth. Then we investigate the independent effects of self-employment on employment growth and changes in family poverty rates. Our results indicate that higher self-employment rates are associated with statistically significant increases over time in income and employment growth, and reductions in poverty rates in non-metro counties. We find similar effects on metro county income and employment, but not on poverty dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *SELF-employment
*PERFORMANCE evaluation
*INCOME
*EMPLOYMENT
*PANEL analysis
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10568190
- Volume :
- 92
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Papers in Regional Science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 85861789
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1435-5957.2011.00396.x