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Robert W. Fairlie
Associate Professor and director, M.S. Program,
Applied Economics and Finance, Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California.
E-mail:
fairlie@ucsc.edu
Researchers have used the rich data from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to investigate the relationship between self-employment and various job and earnings outcomes; future inquiry may afford valuable insights into other interesting consequences of self-employment.
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