The relation between public assistance and self-employment in census tracts: a long-term perspective

Autor:	Cornelius A. Rietveld, Pankaj C. Patel, Igor Muzetti Pereira
Přispěvatelé:	Applied Economics
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics Entrepreneurship Poverty media_common.quotation_subject Perspective (graphical) Census General Business Management and Accounting Term (time) Negative relationship SDG 1 - No Poverty Economics Demographic economics Welfare Self-employment media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Evolutionary Economics. Springer New York
ISSN:	1432-1386 0936-9937
DOI:	10.1007/s00191-021-00746-3
Popis:	We present evidence on the long-term relationship between the breadth (the proportion of households) and depth (the amount per household) of public assistance and the prevalence of self-employment in US neighbourhoods. The analysis of decennial data of 71,437 census tracts over four decades (1970 to 2000) shows that the poverty ratio lowers self-employment, and that breadth (but not depth) of public assistance mitigates the negative relationship between the poverty ratio and self-employment. The results are robust to alternate model specifications and are informative about the distributional effects of welfare spendings.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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