Entrepreneurial homeworkers

Nam Kyoon N. Kim () and Simon C. Parker ()
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Nam Kyoon N. Kim: Western University
Simon C. Parker: Western University

Small Business Economics, 2021, vol. 57, issue 3, No 18, 1427-1451

Abstract: Abstract Nearly 40% of British self-employees are homeworkers. Using a large representative sample of the UK longitudinal survey data, we explore the determinants of self-employed homeworking, distinguishing between genders. We reject the notion that homeworking is a transitional entrepreneurial state that the self-employed “grow out of”, while establishing that both employer status and business structure play an important role in predicting which self-employed become homeworkers. Our findings also shed light on two outstanding puzzles in entrepreneurship scholarship: why so few of the self-employed create jobs for others, and why on average the self-employed suffer an earnings penalty compared with employees.

Keywords: Homework; Self-employment; Entrepreneurship; Employers; Caregiving; J13; J24; L26; M13; R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s11187-020-00356-6

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