Youth Self Employment: Its Nature and Consequences

Donald Williams

Small Business Economics, 2004, vol. 23, issue 4, 323-336

Abstract: This paper examines the extent of self-employment, characteristics of the self-employed, and the returns to self-employment experiences for a sample of teenagers and young adults in the United States. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that the self-employment experience of youth is quite different from that of adults. Consequences of youth self-employment, measured at age 27, suggest both positive and negative effects.

Date: 2004
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