| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP917 |
| DP917 Industrial Localization. An Empirical Test for Marshallian Localization Economies | |
| Jurgen von Hagen; George Hammond | |
| 发表日期 | 1994-02-28 |
| 出版年 | 1994 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | There is a tremendous diversity in the level and time-series pattern of the self-employment rate across countries. After documenting this fact with cross-section and time-series data on industrialized and lesser-developed countries, this paper presents and tests a series of hypotheses concerning the sources of this diversity. We show that the major explanation for this diversity is the stage of economic development. While the tendency for the self-employment rate to decline with economic development has long been recognized, this paper is the first attempt to estimate the statistical relationship between self-employment and economic development and to test an explanation for this relationship that is grounded in theory. We also show that the negative relationship between self-employment and economic development remains after controlling for a number of other factors. Although economic development is an extremely powerful force behind the secular decline in self-employment rates, the convergence of several factors in the 1970s tended to stem the secular decline in the self-employment rate for many countries. Of the 23 OECD countries we examined, 15 had increases in the self-employment rate during the 1970s or 1980s. It is likely, however, that these factors are temporary and that self-employment will continue its downwards trend as per-capita wealth increases in the developed and developing world. |
| 关键词 | Economic development Self-employment Unemployment |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp917 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/530054 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jurgen von Hagen,George Hammond. DP917 Industrial Localization. An Empirical Test for Marshallian Localization Economies. 1994. |
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