Transitions to self-employment at older ages: The role of wealth, health, health insurance and other factors

By J. Zissimopoulos, Lynn A. Karoly. 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics

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Individual Determinants of Self-Employment Entry – What Do We Really Know? (2013, unknown): “…a positive association between poor health (illness and disability) and the self-employment option (Borjas, 1986; Karoly and Zissimopoulos, 2004; Zissimopoulos and Karoly, 2007; Pagán, 2009; Jones and Latreille, 2011), there is also evidence pointing in the opposite direction (Rees and Shah,…”
Ageing and entrepreneurial preferences (2013, unknown): “Moreover, prior research suggests that higher unemployment benefits (Parker and Robson 2004; Staber and Bögenhold 1993) and access to pensions (Fuchs 1982; Zissimopoulos and Karoly 2007) discourage self-employment compared to waged employment.”
Return Migration and Occupational Choice (2009, unknown): “This age pattern is consistent with evidence of higher self-employment rates at the end of the active lifetime, which reflects higher rates of retirement out of wage employment compared to self-employment as well as transitions to self-employment at an older age (Zissimopoulos and Karoly, 2007).”
Late-career entrepreneurship, income and quality of life (2017, methodology): “Moreover, health conditions limiting the ability to work have been found to be positively associated with transitioning to entrepreneurship (Zissimopoulos and Karoly, 2007), probably because entrepreneurship provides the individual with the control over the pace, timing, and amount of work to…”
Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited (2012, unknown): “…(1996, 1998), Blanchflower and Oswald (1998), Dunn and Holtz-Eakin (2000), Fairlie (1999), Johansson (2000), Taylor (2001), Zissimopoulos and Karoly (2007), Zissimopoulos et al. (2010), Holtz-Eakin and Rosen (2005), Giannetti and Simonov (2004), Nykvist (2008), and Bates and Lofstrom (2012).”