Understanding Self-Employment Trajectories over the Life Course in the United States

Joelle Abramowitz & Andrew Joung
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CONFERENCE HELD March 6-7, 2025
Book: The Changing Nature of Work
Book editors: Susan N. Houseman, Anne Polivka & Ayşegül Şahin
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
Series: Studies in Income and Wealth
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  • Joelle Abramowitz and Andrew Joung, The Changing Nature of Work (University of Chicago Press, 2026), chap. 7, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/changing-nature-work/understanding-self-employment-trajectories-over-life-course-united-states.

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