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Tax Incentives and the Decision to Purchase Health Insurance : Evidence from the Self-Employed

Gruber, Jonathan - 1993

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 introduced a new tax subsidy for health insurance purchases by self-employed persons. This paper analyzes the changing patterns of insurance demand before and after this reform to generate new estimates of how the after tax price of insurance affects the discrete...

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A Longitudinal Analysis of Young Entrepreneurs in Australia and the United States

Blanchflower, David G. - 1991

This paper examines the pattern of self-employment in Australia and the United States. We particularly focus on the movement of young people in and out of self-employment using comparable longitudinal data from the two countries. We find that the forces that influence whether a person becomes...

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Consumer Discrimination and Self-Employment

Borjas, George J. - 1988

Self-employment rates and incomes differ significantly by race. We show that these differentials arise in markets with consumer discrimination and incomplete information about the price of the good and the race of the seller. Equilibrium income distributions have two properties: mean black...

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The Self-Employment Experience of Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 1986

Self-employment is an important aspect of the immigrant experience in the labor market. Self-employment rates for immigrants exceed 15 percent for some national groups. This paper addresses three related questions on the self-employment experience of immigrants. First, how do self-employment...

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Self-Employment and Labor Force Participation of Older Males (Revised)

Fuchs, Victor R. - 1980

This longitudinal analysis of the labor market behavior of older, urban white males in 1969, 1971, and 1973 focuses on changes from wage-and-salary to self-employment and changes from working to non-working status. In each two-year transition approximately four percent of wage-and-salary workers...

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Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Jayachandran, Seema - 2020

This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in … attention to unique issues that arise with female entrepreneurship …

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Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth : 5-year Experimental Evidence on Factory Job Offers and Cash Grants in Ethiopia

Blattman, Christopher - 2019

We study two interventions for underemployed youth across five Ethiopian sites: a $300 grant to spur self-employment, and a job offer to an industrial firm. Despite significant impacts on occupational choice, income, and health in the first year, after five years we see nearly complete...

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Measuring the Gig Economy : Current Knowledge and Open Issues

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2018

The rise of the "gig economy" has attracted wide attention from both scholars and the popular media. Much of this attention has been devoted to jobs mediated through various online platforms. While non-traditional work arrangements have been a perennial subject of debate and study, the...

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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship

Hamilton, Barton H. - 2018

entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to … open a business. This has important consequences for entrepreneurship policies. For example, subsidies for small businesses …

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The $100 Million Nudge : Increasing Tax Compliance of Businesses and the Self-Employed using a Natural Field Experiment

Holz, Justin E. - 2020

This paper uses a natural field experiment to examine the effectiveness of specific nudges on tax compliance amongst firms and the self-employed in the Dominican Republic. In collaboration with the Dominican Republic's tax authority, we designed messages for more than 28,000 self-employed...

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