This work explores self-employment in Britain across recent years and examines changes in the flows of individuals into and out of self-employment. Panel data suggest that the large increase in self-employment in the 1980s was due to increases in the inflow rate, while an increase in the outflow rate in the early 1990s has stopped this trend. Gender, parents occupation, assets and considering t...

The paper reports micro-econometric evidence on the factors that influence self-employment choice, earnings and the ability of the self-employed to generate employment for others. It uses recent longitudinal data for the UK, and is therefore able to exploit multiple observations on the same individual to control for unobserved heterogeneity, and mitigate problems of endogeneity which trouble cr...

BACKGROUND There is controversy as to whether peripheral employment is related to poor health status or not. This study aims at examining whether 1) the accumulation of time in peripheral labour market positions is associated with psychological distress and poor or average self-rated health; 2) the proposed association is different among women than among men. METHOD Participants in the 1995 a...

Previous studies have found that self-employed workers with long business tenure earn less than other workers with similar characteristics. This difference in earnings can be explained by the compensating wage differential theory when self-employed jobs have attractive non-earnings aspects. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 (NLSY79), I test whether moves in and out of self-empl...

Changes in employment conditions since the 1980s have been referred to as precarious employment, and terms like flexible, atypical, temporary, part-time, contract, self-employed, irregular, or non-standard employment have also been used. In this essay I review some of the current critiques to the precarious employment construct and advance some potential solutions for its use in epidemiology an...

Despite lower incomes, the self-employed consistently report higher satisfaction with their jobs. But are self-employed individuals also happier, more satisfied with their lives as a whole? High job satisfaction might cause them to neglect other important domains of life, such that the fulfilling job crowds out other pleasures, leaving the individual on the whole not happier than others. Moreov...

II. EMPLOYMENT OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES .....................................1588 A. OVERVIEW.....................................................................................1588 B. SELF-EMPLOYMENT AND ENTREPRENEURS WITH DISABILITIES .................................................................................1590 1. Illustrative Prior Research ..........................................