The employment dynamics of less-educated men in the United States: The role of self-employment

Taehyun Ahn

Canadian Journal of Economics, 2015, vol. 48, issue 1, 110-133

Abstract: Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I construct a sample of working-age males and examine the employment dynamics with a particular focus on the role of self-employment for less-educated men in the US. I find that men responding they had at some point been self-employed tend to spend less time in non-employment than other less-educated men. The results from the dynamic multinomial logit model reveal positive aspects of self-employment by indicating that less-educated men who were self-employed in the previous year were less likely to be non-employed in the future as compared to those who were paid workers in the previous year.

JEL-codes: J20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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