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Self-employment of older Americans: do recessions matter?
| Title: | Self-employment of older Americans: do recessions matter?. |
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| Name(s): |
Biehl, Amelia, author Gurley-Calvez, Tami, author Hill, Brian, author |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Issued: | 2014-02-01 | |
| Extent: | 1 online resource | |
| Language(s): |
English eng |
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| Summary: | As high unemployment rates linger following the latest recession, job opportunities can be sparse, especially for older workers. This might prompt older Americans to seek out opportunities in self-employment. Alternatively, recession-related decreases in economic activity might make selfemployment less attractive. Using the Health and Retirement Study, we find that unemployed respondents are more likely to enter self-employment and that these decisions are clearly affected by recessions, although the effects differ by recession and gender. Unlike men, women’s self-employment decisions are very sensitive to other sources of household income, and women are less likely to become self-employed the deeper the recession. | |
| Identifier: | fgcu_ir_000601 (IID) | |
| Note(s): | The publisher's version of the article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11187-013-9479-7 | |
| Subject(s): |
Self employment Studies Entrepreneurship. Recessions. Older people. |
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| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11187-013-9479-7 | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fgcu/fd/fgcu_ir_000601 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | Copyright held by publisher. | |
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| Host Institution: | FGCU | |
| Is Part Of: | Small Business Economics. |
