Female self-employment and demand for flexible, nonstandard work schedules

Abstract

Motivated by the rising importance of female self‐employment, this article develops and estimates a two‐step empirical model to explain why married women choose self‐employment over wage‐salary employment. The article also develops a bounded influence regression model to estimate self‐employment wage equations. In sum, a woman is more likely to choose self‐employment the greater her relative earnings potential as self‐employed, the greater her demand for flexibility, the greater her demand for a nonstandard work week, and if her husband has health insurance. The increase in women's earnings potential as self‐employed explains most of the increase in their self‐employment from 1979 to 1990.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 227 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.