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Title: Entrepreneurship and Earnings among Young Adults from Disadvantaged Families
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Fairlie, Robert W. |
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Entrepreneurship and Earnings among Young Adults from Disadvantaged Families Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of California - Santa Cruz, June 2003. Also: http://econ.ucsc.edu/~fairlie/papers/family6.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz Keyword(s): Disadvantaged, Economically; Earnings; Economic Changes/Recession; Self-Employed Workers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Academicians and policymakers have argued that entrepreneurship provides a route out of poverty and an alternative to unemployment or discrimination in the labor market. Existing research, however, provides little evidence from longitudinal data on the relationship between business ownership and economic advancement for disadvantaged groups. I use data from the National Longitudinal Survey (NLSY) to examine the earnings of young business owners from disadvantaged families and make comparisons to young wage/salary workers from disadvantaged families. For young men from disadvantaged families, I find some evidence that self-employed business owners earn more than wage/salary workers. In contrast, I find that for young women from disadvantaged families business owners earn less than wage/salary workers. The results from these earnings comparisons are somewhat sensitive to the use of different measures of income and econometric models. |
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Fairlie, Robert W. "Entrepreneurship and Earnings among Young Adults from Disadvantaged Families." Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of California - Santa Cruz, June 2003. |