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| Titre : | Does solo self-employment serve as a ‘stepping stone’ to employership? (2021) |
| Auteurs : | Michael Leith Cowling ; Mark Wooden |
| Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
| Dans : | Labour economics (vol. 68, January 2021) |
| Article en page(s) : | Article 101942 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ TRAVAIL INDEPENDANT ; FORME D'EMPLOI ; CREATION D'EMPLOI ; EMPLOYEUR ; POLITIQUE DE L'EMPLOI ; GENRE ; MODELISATION ; ECONOMETRIE ; AUSTRALIE |
| Résumé : | This paper examines the extent to which solo self-employment serves as a vehicle for job creation. Using panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, a dynamic multinomial logit model of transitions between labour market states is estimated. The empirical strategy closely follows that used in a previous study employing household data from Germany by Lechmann and Wunder (2017). Estimates of true cross-state dependence between solo self-employment and employership are obtained that are relatively small. Further, the results imply that the probability of a male worker being an employer just two years after transitioning out of solo self-employment is only about 4% (and among women, it is just 2%). The extent of both true cross-state dependence and true state dependence in employership is, however, much greater among individuals who have demonstrated a preference for self-employment in the past. This implies that pro-entrepreneurial policies that target more ‘entrepreneurial’ individuals will have more pronounced and long-term effects in stimulating job creation. |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101942 |
