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abstract: 'Previous studies have pointed to the existence of barriers at the entry
of self-employed sectors, such as liquidity constraints. In many
countries, policies are directed toward removing these barriers in order
to promote entrepreneurial activity. This paper examines whether such
barriers exist by examining the amount of rent enjoyed by self-employed
workers; if there are no barriers between the self-employed sector and
the salary/wage sector, self-employed workers should not enjoy rents.
Examination of the rent associated with self-employment, however, cannot
simply be accomplished by comparing the incomes of self-employed and
salary/wage workers. This is because self-employed workers may enjoy
higher utility due to their work environment, with such benefits as
autonomy and flexibility of work schedules. To overcome the difficulty
of measuring self-employment rents, I use self-reported job satisfaction
from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 (NLSY79) to capture
workers'' overall satisfaction with their jobs. The results robustly
indicate that self-employed workers are more satisfied with their jobs
than salary/wage workers, even after allowing for the time-invariant
individual heterogeneity in their reported job satisfaction. This result
suggests that there are barriers at the entry into self-employment and
that self-employed workers enjoy rents.'
affiliation: 'Kawaguchi, D (Corresponding Author), Hitotsubashi Univ, Grad Sch Econ,
Tokyo 1868601, Japan.
Hitotsubashi Univ, Grad Sch Econ, Tokyo 1868601, Japan.'
author: Kawaguchi, Daiii
author-email: kawaguch@econ.hit-u.ac.jp
author_list:
- family: Kawaguchi
given: Daiii
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.15057/15881
files: []
issn: 0018-280X
journal: HITOTSUBASHI JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
keywords: self-employment; job satisfaction
keywords-plus: WINDFALL GAINS; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; RETURNS
language: English
month: JUN
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '20'
orcid-numbers: Kawaguchi, Daiji/0000-0002-0595-9443
pages: 35-45
papis_id: c5cf7083cc8094a4fc75963d54327406
ref: Kawaguchi2008selfemploymentrents
times-cited: '10'
title: 'Self-employment rents: Evidence from job satisfaction scores'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000257182900004
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '12'
volume: '49'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2008'