Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-employment∗

Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment

Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment In most industrialized countries the majority of employed people are full-time employees with a non-temporary job and work at a workplace of the company in which they are employed. They are making careers at the employer they are employed by and most work-place changes are to other jobs of the same type. But it does no...

Workers , Capitalists , Wages , and Employment ∗

Standard new Keynesian models assume the functional distribution of income is irrelevant. This stands in contrast to much of the public debate which presumes that a shift in the distribution of income towards workers will boost aggregate demand and employment. Under this latter view, falling wages during a recession can worsen unemployment. In contrast, neoclassical economics often views unempl...

Self-Employment Trends and Patterns Among Older U.S. Workers

Although self-employment is an important labor force phenomenon at older ages, there is a paucity of studies that examine the patterns of self-employment among older U.S. workers. With the leading edge of the baby boom cohort reaching retirement years, the rising rates of selfemployment with age suggest that it is important to have a solid understanding of who is selfemployed at older ages and ...

Employment and self-employment in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

We use data from the monthly Current Population Survey to examine the short- and longer-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on the labor market outcomes of prime-age individuals in the most affected states--Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi--and for evacuees in any state. We focus on rates of labor force participation, employment, and unemployment, and we extend prior research by also ...

Cross-Border Migration, Employment and Economic Growth