The Employment Dynamics of Less Educated Men in the United States: The Role of Self-Employment

Taehyun Ahn

No 1104, Working Papers from Nam Duck-Woo Economic Research Institute, Sogang University (Former Research Institute for Market Economy)

Abstract: Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I construct a sample of less educated men, all of whom are observed from age 22 to age 41, and examine the employment dynamics with a particular focus on the role of self-employment. I find that ¡°ever self-employed¡± workers tend to spend less time in nonemployment after they experience self-employment. The results from my dynamic logit model confirm the positive aspects of self-employment by indicating that men who were self-employed in the previous year are less likely than those who were paid workers to be nonemployed in the next year.

Keywords: self-employment; less educated men (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2011
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