The Importance of Housing for Self-employment

Reuschke, Darja

doi:10.1080/00130095.2016.1178568

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“…The median age can affect new establishments in two ways: as a supply factor and as a demand factor. In a supply factor approach, one possible explanation for the positive effect is that houses are used for office space [59], and older people are more likely to start home-based businesses. Many small-sized establishments with less than five employees locate in single-family residential areas, and small-sized establishments make up a large portion of the entire dataset.…”

Section: Demographic Environmentmentioning

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Location Choice of New Business Establishments: Understanding the Local Context and Neighborhood Conditions in the United States

Chin

2020

Sustainability

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With the continuing shift toward e-commerce, physical business locations with a brick-and-mortar presence become an endangered element of urban fabric, land use, and the local economy. City governments and local municipalities have created and implemented a variety of strategies and incentives to stimulate new business activity within their jurisdictions. A policy of enhancing the business climate is productive in some regions but not in others. To understand these variations in outcomes, this research focuses on examining the relationship between the uniqueness of certain regions, spatially bounded characteristics, and how both affect where new establishments locate. A two-level model is introduced to employ the census tract as a spatial unit of analysis and analyzes new establishments within 27 medium-sized metropolitan statistical areas in the United States. That quantitative model allows this study to determine key regional and neighborhood factors, as well as the existence of previously unmeasured factors, influencing location decisions of new establishments. The results of this study confirm the importance of economic, demographic, and geographic conditions at the neighborhood level, providing a better understanding of the vulnerability of the local economy.

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Section: Demographic Environmentmentioning

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Location Choice of New Business Establishments: Understanding the Local Context and Neighborhood Conditions in the United States

Chin

2020

Sustainability

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“…Understanding Society first included work-related strain measures in Wave 2 (2010-2012) and repeated them in Wave 4 (2012-2014) and Wave 6 ([2014][2015][2016]. It contains data about many work and wellbeing-related characteristics and has been used in research on self-employment (e.g Henley, 2017;Reuschke, 2016). and health (e.g Bryan, 2012;Chandola & Zhang, 2018;Davillas and Pudney, 2017;Patel et al, 2019)…”

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A fresh look at self-employment, stress and health: accounting for self-selection, time and gender

Stephan

2020

IJEBR

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PurposePast research on self-employment and health yielded conflicting findings. Integrating predictions from the Stressor-Strain Outcome model, research on challenge stressors and allostatic load, we predict that physical and mental health are affected by self-employment in distinct ways which play out over different time horizons. We also test whether the health impacts of self-employment are due to enhanced stress (work-related strain) and differ for man and women.Design/methodology/approachWe apply non-parametric propensity score matching in combination with a difference-in-difference approach and longitudinal cohort data to examine self-selection and the causal relationship between self-employment and health. We focus on those that transit into self-employment from paid employment (opportunity self-employment) and analyze strain and health over four years relative to individuals in paid employment.FindingsThose with poorer mental health are more likely to self-select into self-employment. After entering self-employment, individuals experience a short-term uplift in mental health due to lower work-related strain, especially for self-employed men. In the longer-term (four years) the mental health of the self-employed drops back to pre-self-employment levels. We find no effect of self-employment on physical health.Practical implicationsOur research helps to understand the nonpecuniary benefits of self-employment and suggests that we should not advocate self-employment as a “healthy” career.Originality/valueThis article advances research on self-employment and health. Grounded in stress theories it offers new insights relating to self-selection, the temporality of effects, the mediating role of work-related strain, and gender that collectively help to explain why past research yielded conflicting findings.

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“…Many home-based businesses are located in detached and semi-detached houses. This gives them a rural and within metropolitan areas a suburban location (Reuschke, 2016). By contrast, home-based businesses were found to be less likely to be located in tower blocks, flats, and terraced houses in inner cities (Green et al, 2000), where there is less potential for extension.…”

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Policy Brief on Home-Based Businesses

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Domecka

2018

OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Papers

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This policy brief examines the phenomenon of home-based entrepreneurship. It provides information on the types of businesses that entrepreneurs are most likely to operate out of the home, their reasons for this choice, and barriers to the development of home-based businesses. It examines how public policy approaches can better support home-based businesses, including removing hindrances in regulations and improving access to business development services. Key policy lessons are highlighted, including on how policy makers can increase social and labour market inclusion through taking better account of home-based businesses. This policy brief is part of a series of reports produced by the OECD on inclusive entrepreneurship. The series includes policy briefs on women's entrepreneurship, youth entrepreneurship, senior entrepreneurship, access to business start-up finance for inclusive entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship by the disabled, as a well as reports on 'The Missing Entrepreneurs'. JEL codes: L26, J16

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The Importance of Housing for Self-employment

Cited by 26 publications

References 64 publications

Location Choice of New Business Establishments: Understanding the Local Context and Neighborhood Conditions in the United States

Location Choice of New Business Establishments: Understanding the Local Context and Neighborhood Conditions in the United States

A fresh look at self-employment, stress and health: accounting for self-selection, time and gender

Policy Brief on Home-Based Businesses

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