Entrepreneurial Homeworkers

Nam Kyoon N. Kim; Simon C. Parker

doi:10.1007/s11187-020-00356-6

Entrepreneurial Homeworkers

Nam Kyoon N. Kim, Simon C. Parker^*

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Business Management

Western University

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Abstract

Nearly 40% of British self-employees are homeworkers. Using a large representative sample of the UK longitudinal survey data, we explore the determinants of self-employed homeworking, distinguishing between genders. We reject the notion that homeworking is a transitional entrepreneurial state that the self-employed “grow out of”, while establishing that both employer status and business structure play an important role in predicting which self-employed become homeworkers. Our findings also shed light on two outstanding puzzles in entrepreneurship scholarship: why so few of the self-employed create jobs for others, and why on average the self-employed suffer an earnings penalty compared with employees.

Original language	English
Article number	1427–1451
Number of pages	25
Journal	Small Business Economics
Volume	57
Early online date	18 May 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-020-00356-6
Publication status	Published - Oct 2021

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Keywords

homework
self-employment
Entrepreneurship
employers
caregiving
Self-employment

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