ARCHIVED—A Longitudinal Analysis of Young Entrepreneurs in Canada

CCSBE 21st Annual Conference
2000, Ottawa, Ontario

Evangelia Papadaki, Industry Canada
Jan Patenaude, Statistics Canada
Hélène Roberge, Statistics Canada
Emile Tompa, Statistics Canada

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Self-Employment Trends in Canada
  • Trends in Self-Employment over the Last Two Decades
  • Trends in Unincorporated Self-Employment from 1982-1995
• Theoretical and Statistical Framework
  • Literature Review
  • Statistical Model
• Empirical Results
  • Transition from Paid-Employment to Self-Employment
  • Self-Employment Model Estimates
  • Predicted Probabilities
  • Transition from Self-employment to Paid-employment
• Discussion
• Appendix :
  • Unincorporated Self-employment Trends
    • Table 1: Female Paid-employment and Self-employment Trends
    • Table 2: Male Paid-employment and Self-employment Trends
    • Table 3: Transition from Paid-employment to Self-employment of Female Child Tax Filers
    • Table 4: Transition from Paid-employment to Self-employment of Male Child Tax Filers
  • Estimates of the Probability Exiting Self-employment
    • Table 5: Linear Probability Estimates of Entry for 20-29
    • Table 6: Linear Probability Model Estimates of Exit for 20-29
• References