Income Mobility of Owners of Small Businesses when Boundaries between Occupations are Vague



(Thoresen and Alstadsæter, 2008). Descriptions in Figure 1 accord with this; we see a decrease in the
number of self-employed, a stable number of closely held firms and a substantial increase in the
number of widely held firms.

Figure 1. Number of wage earners and self-employed 1993-2003, number of widely held and
closely held firms 1995-2005

Number of persons in 1,000
2 500

2 000

1 500


Wage earners
Self-employed

1 000

500

0
1993   1994   1995   1996   1997   1998   1999   2000   2001   2002   2003

Number of firms
120 000
»

100 000

80 000                                           ^^^^≡Closely held firms

≠                    - - Widely held firms

60 000

40 000

20 000

0

1993   1994   1995   1996   1997   1998   1999   2000   2001   2002   2003

Sources: Labour force survey, Income statistics for limited companies

The data on which this study is mainly based are from the Income Statistics on Persons and
Families, see Statistics Norway (2006a). These statistics hold register-based information on the whole
population, based primarily on income tax returns filed with the Directorate of Taxes' Register of
Personal Tax-Payers. Other sources provide many of the demographic variables. Thus, as these data



More intriguing information

1. Improving the Impact of Market Reform on Agricultural Productivity in Africa: How Institutional Design Makes a Difference
2. The name is absent
3. The name is absent
4. An Efficient Circulant MIMO Equalizer for CDMA Downlink: Algorithm and VLSI Architecture
5. Secondary school teachers’ attitudes towards and beliefs about ability grouping
6. THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE OF THE MEXICAN MARKET FOR U.S. COTTON: IMPACT OF THE ELIMINATION OF TEXTILE AND CLOTHING QUOTAS
7. Stable Distributions
8. Public Debt Management in Brazil
9. Factores de alteração da composição da Despesa Pública: o caso norte-americano
10. Effects of red light and loud noise on the rate at which monkeys sample the sensory environment
11. The name is absent
12. Antidote Stocking at Hospitals in North Palestine
13. The East Asian banking sector—overweight?
14. Learning and Endogenous Business Cycles in a Standard Growth Model
15. Unilateral Actions the Case of International Environmental Problems
16. Manufacturing Earnings and Cycles: New Evidence
17. Evaluation of the Development Potential of Russian Cities
18. Concerns for Equity and the Optimal Co-Payments for Publicly Provided Health Care
19. A model-free approach to delta hedging
20. DISCUSSION: ASSESSING STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN THE DEMAND FOR FOOD COMMODITIES