The Economic Impacts of Self-Employment

Stephan Goetz, David Fleming and Anil Rupasingha

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2012, vol. 44, issue 3, 7

Abstract: Even as self-employment continues to increase, policymakers remain largely unaware of this trend and fail to see it as an opportunity for addressing enduring joblessness. In part, this is explained by limited data on the self-employed and by widespread perceptions that returns to self-employment are low; that the self-employed are merely patching together piecemeal work opportunities requiring limited skills; and that there are no local economic impacts or spillover benefits into other sectors. Contrary to these perceptions, recent studies suggest that self-employment has tangible positive economic impacts not only on wage and salary employment but also on per capita income growth and poverty reduction. This article synthesizes the pertinent emerging literature and assesses dynamics of the lags involved between self-employment shocks and subsequent employment growth.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.130267

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