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Some Empirical Aspects of Entrepreneurship
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In this article, the authors examined the process of selection into self-employment over the life cycle and the determinants of self employment earnings using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men (NLS) for 1966-1981 and the Current Population Surveys for 1968-1987.Abstract:
About 4.2 million men and women operate businesses on a full-time basis. Comprising more than a tenth of all workers, they run most of our nation’s firms and employ about a tenth of all wage workers. The fraction of the labor force that is self-employed has increased since the mid-1970s after a long period of decline.1 This paper examines the process of selection into self-employment over the life cycle and the determinants of self-employment earnings using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men (NLS) for 1966–1981 and the Current Population Surveys for 1968–1987.read more
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An Estimated Model of Entrepreneurial Choice under Liquidity Constraints
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