Local Labor Market Dynamics and Self-Employment in Rural New England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2154735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Lippmann (Miami University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 371-400 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Spectrum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0273-2173 • E-ISSN: 1521-0707 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02732170902761990 |
| OpenAlex | W2162948333 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 38 |
As rates of self-employment and entrepreneurial activity grow in the U.S., sociologists are beginning to consider the causes and consequences of this form of employment more seriously. While the sociological contributions to entrepreneurial research take seriously the social context in which self-employment occurs, few studies focus explicitly on the effects of social and economic contexts on rates of self-employment in particular regions. I fill this gap by examining the effects of a variety of local labor-market, population, and economic characteristics on county-level self-employment rates in three predominantly rural states: Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. I find that counties with higher proportions of their labor forces in extractive industries and that have experienced greater declines in the primary sector had higher rates of poverty and unemployment; however, self-employment is negatively related to county-level poverty rates, indicating that self-employment may provide opportunities for those in rural counties undergoing economic transformations
Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Geography · Labour economics · Political science · Population · Poverty · Rural area · Self-employment · Sociology · Unemployment · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
When Work Disappears
Working Hard and Making Do
The deindustrialization of America
Regional Advantage
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
Self Employment
Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Gender and Household Economic Strategies in Rural Appalachia
Microenterprise Development Programs in the United States and in the Developing World
The Deindustrialization of America
The Transformation of the U.S. Labor Force
The Deindustrialization of America
Organizations Evolving
The Kuznets Curve and the Great U-Turn
Survival Chances of Newly Founded Business Organizations
Bad Jobs in America
Distance and health care utilization among the rural elderly
From Settlement to Fordism
Self-Employment
Coping with Rural Poverty
Entrepreneurial Processes in an Emergent Resource Industry
Two Paths to Self-Employment
Nonstandard Employment Relations
Economic Restructuring, Gender, and Informal Work
Household Poverty in Rural and Metropolitan-Core Areas of the United States1
Addictive Economies
Entrepreneurial Social Infrastructure and Locally Initiated Economic Development in the Nonmetropolitan United States
Gender and Poverty
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2020 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |