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Who are the Self-employed? A New Approach

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Brown, Sarah (University of Leicester)
Lisa Farrell
Mark N Harris

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Whilst the individual supply-side characteristics of the self-employed are well documented, the literature has largely neglected (or mis-specified) demand-side aspects. Our econometric framework, based on the parameterised DOGEV model, allows us to separately, and simultaneously, model supply and demand-side influences. We show that whilst individual characteristics are important determinants of type of employment contract held, there are important contract-specific factors influencing the contract an individual is employed under. Our results suggest that workers may be "captive" to particular types of employment because of the sectors in which they work, the number of hours they prefer to work and their ethnicity.

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Paper provided by Royal Economic Society in its series Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2003 with number 31.

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Keywords: self-employment; captivity;

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J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models
C10 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - General

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  1. Sindy A. González & Héctor J. Villarreal, 2006. "More Pushed than Pulled: Self-employment in rural Mexico ten years after NAFTA," Working Papers 20063, Escuela de Graduados en Administración Pública y Políticas Públicas, Campus Monterrey, revised Nov 2006. [Downloadable!]
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