Labor Market Policies and Self-Employment Transitions of Older Workers

Dimitris Christelis and Raquel Fonseca ()

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Abstract: We study transitions in and out of self-employment of older individuals using internationally comparable survey data from 13 OECD countries. We compute selfemployment transitions as conditional probabilities arising from a discrete choice panel data model. We examine the influence on self-employment transitions of labor market policies and institutional factors (employment protection legislation, spending on employment and early retirement incentives, unemployment benefits, strength of the rule of law), as well as individual characteristics like physical and mental health. Selfemployment is strongly affected by government policies: larger expenditures on employment incentives impact it positively, while the opposite is true for expenditures on early retirement and unemployment benefits.

Keywords: self-employment; transitions; ageing; labor policies; panel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C4 J21 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-11-04
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