TY - JOUR
AU1 - Parker, Simon C.
AU2 - Robson, Martin T.
AU3 - 
AB - Southern tU-unomu Journal 2{X)4, 71(2). 2X7-301 Explaining International Variations in Self-Employment: Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries Simon C. Parker* and Martin T. Robsont Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) data from 1972 ID 19 % reveals subslanti;il dilferences in the levels and trends ol* self-employment rates across countries. This article uses recently developed panel integration and cointegration techniques to explore the detenninants of aggregate self-employment rates. We find that within the panel, self-employment rates are positively and signiticantly relaied to personal income tax rates and negatively and significantly related to the unemployment benefit replacement rate. This accords a central role to government tax and transfer policies, in contrast to nonrobu.st influences from macroeconomic variables, which have been widely used in previous studies, JE L Classification: C23, J23 , H24 , H2 5 1. Introduction In recent years there has been growing awareness of the importance of self-employmeni for growth and employment creation. Governments around the world are increasingly itnplementing policies designed to promote self-employment (see. e.g., OECD 1998). Yet relatively little is known about the determinants of self-employment, especially the effects on the self-employment rate of govemment policy instruments. As we show in this article, self-employment 
TI - Explaining International Variations in Self-Employment: Evidence from a Panel of OECD Countries
JF - Southern Economic Journal
DO - 10.2307/4135292
DA - 2004-10-01
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