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Self-employment among older U.S. workers
Lynn A. Karoly
Senior Economist, RAND.
E-mail: Lynn_Karoly@rand.org.
Julie Zissimopoulos
Economist, RAND.
E-mail: Julie_Zissimopoulos@rand.org.
The 1990s showed a downward trend in self-employment rates, however, the fact that self-employment rates rise at older ages and that the baby-boom cohort is approaching retirement suggests that demographics alone may halt or reverse that trend.
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