Article(electronic)June 1, 1991

The Decline and Rise of Self-Employment

In: Work, employment and society: a journal of the British Sociological Association, Volume 5, Issue 2, p. 223-239

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Abstract

Indications are that the long-term decline of self-employment has come to a halt in the 1970s in the advanced industrialized economies. In this paper, we challenge the currently popular argument that the recent revival of self-employment represents an effective answer to the problems of slow economic growth and unemployment. Our time-series regression analysis of aggregate self-employment rates in eight major OECD countries from the early 1950s to 1987 suggests that rising self-employment may be a response to deficiencies in labour markets rather than a sign of economic vitality.

Languages

English

Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISSN: 1469-8722

DOI

10.1177/0950017091005002005

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