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Title: I will sleep when I am dead? Sleep and self-employment

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2020

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ISSN: 0921-898X

DOI: 10.1007/s11187-019-00166-5

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Abstract: Anecdotal evidence suggests that entrepreneurs report fewer hours of sleep. However, in samples of 12,086 individuals in the 2012 and 2014 cross-sections of The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and 47,851 individuals in the 2013–2016 National Health Interview Sample cross-sections, our results indicate that self-employed individuals report more sleep. The results in these two samples further show that psychological distress mediates the relationship between self-employment and lower self-reported sleep time and poorer sleep quality. In the third sample of 7714 individuals in waves 1 and 4 of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey, self-employed individuals reporting increase in sleep from wave 1 to wave 4 also reported a very small increase in monthly gross income, indicating limited, if any, gains to income from increasing sleep hours.

Url: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11187-019-00166-5

Url: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11187-019-00166-5

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Authors: Wolfe, Marcus T.; Patel, Pankaj C.

Periodical (Full): Small Business Economics

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Volume: 55

Pages: 901-917

Data Collections: IPUMS Health Surveys - NHIS

Topics: Health, Population Health and Health Systems

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