Heterogeneity in the determinants of local self-employment growth by gender, age and selected industry
Employment ; Entrepreneurship ; Gender ; Industrial sector ; Industrial structure ; Industry ; Producer services ; Regional disparities ; Self-employment ; United States of America
This study explores the determinants of self-employment growth across US regions and by gender, age group and industry. It finds that self-employment growth was faster for women than for men; that growth in the 45–64-year age group outpaced growth
in the age 20–44-year group; and that growth was much faster in professional and business services than in healthcare. The regression results suggest that there is significant heterogeneity in the impact of regional characteristics on self-employment growth
This paper investigates UK data for 1999–2001 on the reported motives for choosing self-employment. After controlling for individual characteristics and industrial structure, some regional differences persist. These are largely for men
and are quantitatively small. Northern Ireland stands out, reflecting the different composition of its self-employed. Conclusions for the emphasis of regional policy and further research are discussed.
Measuring self-help home improvements in Texas colonias : a ten year ‘snapshot’ study
improvements and investments are observed over ten years, mostly financed out of income and savings, although an increasing trend to seek loans from the formal market. Correlation analysis explores how self-help and self-managed dwelling environments
This paper examines the efficacy of relying on self-declared occupational identity through the analysis of rural landholder survey data in Victoria state, Australia. First, it distinguishes self-declared identity of farmer/non-farmer and social
beyond self-declared occupation to include other elements in the collective identity construct.
The impacts of LRT, neighbourhood characteristics, and self-selection on auto ownership : evidence from Minneapolis-St. Paul
This article examines the effects of light rail transit (LRT) in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, USA neighbourhood design and selfselection on auto ownership. It is found that residential self-selection influences auto ownership
; backyard size, off-street parking and business density marginally affect auto ownership; and the LRT does not have an independent impact on auto ownership beyond neighbourhood design and self-selection. The results point to the importance of neighbourhood
This paper examines aspects of space consumption (overcrowded or underoccupied) in two very different housing types: the communist mid-rise estates and postcommunist suburban self-built housing in the city of Pitesti, Romania. The analysis documents
the continued salience of overcrowding in the communist estates and, conversely, self-builders’ satisfaction with the generous size of their new homes. Market forces permit various modes of residential mobility, but their likely outcome is growing housing
This paper examines whether receipt of a Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) grant in Scotland, has a causal impact on plant total factor productivity (TFP). To tackle the problem of self-selection into the treatment group, propensity score matching
This study analyses the structure of transit demand in Atlanta’s transit system to understand why different elements of the network appeal to bus and rail riders. The results show that self-identified bus riders come from poorer areas having fewer
autos per household and seek to reach jobs scattered throughout the metropolitan area. Also, self-identified rail riders primarily access transit by automobile and value fast service to within convenient walking distance of employment
-metropolitan case studies of financialization and argues that the only hope for salvation is a more self-conscious defense of traditional academic values by the guardians of higher learning themselves.
dissent and expose inequalities and, on the other hand, practices that construct alternative arenas where marginal or subordinate people’s self-confidence as political actors can be strengthened.
are examined: patronage, self-managed processes, solidarity and exclusion, and open defecation. The article also considers the implications for a research agenda around informal urban sanitation, emphasizing in particular the potential of a comparative approach
This article examines the neoliberalizing politics, land commodification, and municipal finance in the growth of metropolises (Guangzhou and Beijing). It demonstrates thatState and market do not function as two diametrically opposing and self
for the withdrawal to authoritative moral judgments that justify the barrier tend to victimize the Israelis and dehumanize the Palestinians. Such a world view serves as a mean to maintain positive self image while managing a contractible conflict.
Using a political economic approach, this paper shows that the process of self-commodification may give tourism professionals some control over how ethnic cultures are is presented, but does so within the parameters of state oversight and consumers
In turn-of-the-century USA, the female membership of Hull House, in Chicago, founded a unique socio-spatial research collective in a converted family townhouse. Inspired and led by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates, this community of independent, self
problem, formed collective grievances, and manifested their resistance through protest, while others located the causes of hardship in their own deficiencies and tended to confine their responses to individual self-improvement strategies. It also finds