June 2, 1999 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Self-employment more important in
1990s Canadian job growth than in American
Self-employment accounted for the majority of the net
employment growth that took place in Canada in the 1990s, but accounted for almost none of
the net growth in the U.S. over the same period. Between 1989 and 1997, self-employment
contributed 79.4 percent of job growth in Canada. In the United States, only 0.7 percent
of net employment growth was attributed to self-employment.
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The two countries had more similar experiences in the 1980s. In Canada, 17.0 percent of
net job creation arose from self-employment in the 1979-89 period. The proportion of net
U.S. job growth resulting from self-employment was 13.4 percent.
The data on self-employment in the U.S. come from the Current
Population Survey (CPS). For comparison, the above figures reflect both incorporated
working owners of firms and unincorporated workers. The official U.S. statistics on
self-employment count only unincorporated workers. More information on Canadian and U.S.
self-employment can be found in "The role of
self-employment in U.S. and Canadian job growth," Monthly Labor Review, April
1999.
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