Monthly Labor Review, January 1st, 1996
Bureau of Labor methodology and findings on the issue of self-employment since the 1940s are analyzed. The decline of small farms, and farming generally, has lowered the proportion of self-employed Americans since the 1940s, which now stands at 7.5% of nonfarm employment. Midcareer workers ages 35-44 in services industries are the largest single bloc of the self-employed. Issues of the decline of unpaid family work, business incorporation measurements, and other postwar trends are also analyzed.
About 1 of 11 workers in the United States was self-employed in 1994; the Current Population Surve...
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