Blanchflower what makes an entrepreneur

Blanchflower, D. Journal of Labor Economics, 16, ABSTRACT: The focus of this paper is to investigate the role self-employment conceptualized as a lifestyle factor on health, access to health care, and health behaviors. We analyze rich data on 13, working adults in the US, who are either selfemployed or salaried workers.

Outcomes include physical and mental health perception, validated indexes of physical and mental health, and medical conditions; access-to-care measures such as a barrier to obtaining necessary health care; and health behaviors such as smoking, physical activity and body mass index. Instrumental variables methods are used to correct for selection into self-employment. We find that self-employment is positively associated with perceived physical health, and is negatively associated with having diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and arthritis.

No mental health outcome is significantly associated with self-employment. There is no significant difference between self-employed and wage-earning individuals with regard to access to care. Staub, and R. Bradley and J. Carrington, K. Mccue, and P. Carrol and E. Clark , L'utilit?? Labor Economics , pp. Clark, P. Frijters, and M. Clark and A. Clark, A. Oswald, and P. Warr , Is job satisfaction U-shaped in age? Clark and C. Senik , The unexpected structure of???

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