Never the Same After the First Time: The Satisfaction of the Second-Generation Self-Employed

Andrew Clark, Nathalie Colombier and David Masclet ()

No 3476, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Previous empirical work has shown that the self-employed are generally more satisfied than salaried workers. This paper contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, using French data from the ECHP and British data from the BHPS, we investigate the domains over which this differential operates. We show that, after controlling for occupation, self-employed workers are generally more satisfied with working conditions and pay, but less satisfied than employees with respect to job security. We then consider the differences between the first- and second-generation self-employed. The first-generation self-employed (those whose parents were not self-employed) are more satisfied overall than are the second-generation self-employed. We argue that this finding is consistent with the self-employed partly comparing their labor market outcomes with those of their parents, as well as parental transfers which loosen the self-employment participation constraint. This result is found in both pooled and panel analysis.

Keywords: intergenerational comparisons; satisfaction; self-employment; parents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 J21 J23 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2008-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-ent, nep-hap and nep-lab
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Published - published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29 (7), 591-609

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Journal Article: Never the same after the first time: the satisfaction of the second‐generation self‐employed (2008)
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Working Paper: Never the same after the first time: the satisfaction of the second-generation self-employed (2008)
Working Paper: Never the same after the first time: the satisfaction of the second-generation self-employed (2008)
Working Paper: Never the same after the first time: the satisfaction of the second-generation self-employed (2008)
Working Paper: Never the same after the first time: the satisfaction of the second-generation self-employed (2008)
Working Paper: Never the same after the first time: The satisfaction of the second-generation self-employed (2008)
Working Paper: Never the same after the first time: The satisfaction of the second-generation self-employed (2008)
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