Three-in-Ten U.S. Jobs are Held by the Self-Employed and the Workers They Hire

Rakesh Kochhar, Kim Parker, Mark Hugo Lopez, Claudia Deane, Anna Brown, Michael Keegan, David Kent, Michael Suh Pew Research April 23, 2020

Summary

Using the U.S. Census Bureau data, this report estimates the number of self-employed payrolls and how the job creation varies depending on the self-employed business owners' demographic characteristics. Significant differences in self-employment related to demographic groups in the analysis of the data in this report.

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