Self-Employment in the United States

By W. M. Hinze. 2011

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The Firm Size Distribution Across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology (2018, methodology): “This measure is obtained by combining BDS data with data on unincorporated self-employed businesses reported in Hipple (2010).(18) While the five series shown in the figure cover slightly di↵erent populations of firms, they all show an increasing trend, except for the interwar period. This upward tr”
Attitudes toward risk and self-employment of young workers☆ (2010, background): “Estimates show that over ten percent of the labor force is self-employed when incorporated businesses are counted (Hipple, 2004) and a quarter of youngmen are self-employed at some time in their early careers (Ferber and Waldfogel, 1998).”
Why encouraging more people to become entrepreneurs is bad public policy (2009, background): “In the United States, the decline in the importance of agriculture to the overall economy led to a decline in the unincorporated self-employment rates from 12 percent in 1948 to 7.5 percent in 2003 (Hippel 2004).”
Using Differences in Knowledge Across Neighborhoods to Uncover the Impacts of the EITC on Earnings (2013, unknown): “Data from the Current Population Survey show that the self-employed are more highly represented in less capital-intensive sectors (Hipple 2004).”
The dynamics of entrepreneurship: hysteresis, business cycles and government policy (2011, unknown): “…walk plus a term capturing a possible hysteresis effect: N t C t N t N t SSS εβ ++= −− 11 (2) 2 For a detailed explanation of self-employment measurement in the CPS, see Bregger (1996), Manser and Picot (1999), Karoly and Zissmopoulos (2004) or Hypple (2004) 3 See Blanchard and Summers (1986).”
Community Social Capital and Entrepreneurship (2012, result): “These individual-level results are consistent with an extensive body of prior research on self-employment (for reviews, see Giannetti and Simonov 2004; Hipple 2010).”
Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Do They Earn More? (2017, background): “The NLSY79 is a representative survey of 12,686 individuals who were 15–22 years old when they were first surveyed in 1979.6 Individuals were surveyed annually through 1994 and have since been surveyed biennially.”