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Dynamics of self-employment among older workers / Janice Tupper, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Business economics in a rapidly-changing world series.
- Business Economics in a Rapidly-Changing World
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older people--Employment--United States.
- Older people.
- Self-employed--United States.
- Self-employed.
- Retirees--Employment--United States.
- Retirees.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (114 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Baby boomers, who were born between 1946 and 1964, are entering their retirement years. Since rates of self-employment rise with age, a disproportionate share of the self-employed is composed of middle aged or older workers. Some of these workers have been self-employed for much or all of their working lives while others have transitioned to self-employment later in their careers, often as a way of moving into retirement. Future predictions of baby boomers as a key catalyst for small business growth in the next decade and beyond have tended to neglect an important trend. The self-employment ra
- Contents:
- ""DYNAMICS OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT AMONG OLDER WORKERS""; ""DYNAMICS OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT AMONG OLDER WORKERS""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1: UNDERSTANDING SELF-EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS AMONG INDIVIDUALS NEARING RETIREMENT""; ""EXECUTIVE SUMMARY""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""LITERATURE REVIEW""; ""MODELING THE SELF-EMPLOYMENT RATE AS THE RESULT OF A DYNAMIC PROCESS""; ""DECOMPOSING THE DECLINE IN SELF EMPLOYMENT RATES""; ""VARIABLES ASSOCIATED WITH A DECLINING SELF-EMPLOYMENT RATE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""APPENDIX""; ""REFERENCES""
- ""Chapter 2: SELF-EMPLOYMENT TRANSITIONS AMONG OLDER AMERICAN WORKERS WITH CAREER JOBS""""ABSTRACT""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. BACKGROUND""; ""III. DATA""; ""IV. RESULTS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""INDEX""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 18, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-63321-841-4
- OCLC:
- 916949180
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