Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/234805 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Document de travail No. 2020-05
Publisher: 
Université du Québec à Montréal, École des sciences de la gestion (ESG UQAM), Département des sciences économiques, Montréal
Abstract: 
This paper examines the work motivations and incentives of employees and selfemployed workers near retirement age. We use a sample of Canadians 50 years and older taken from LISA, the Longitudinal and International Study of Adult. Results are as follows. Poverty is associated positively with the transition from employment to self-employment after 50. Optimism appears to explain in part why employees decide to do the switch. For respondents who were self-employed at least once between 50 and 64 years old, it appears that having had prior self-employment experience does not reduce significantly the probability of being poor after 65.
Subjects: 
self-employment
elderly
retirement
Canada
poverty
JEL: 
E24
E32
J14
J20
L26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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