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Pratt, Joanne H. |
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Myths and Realities of Working at Home: Characteristics of Homebased Business Owners and Telecommuters Small Business Research Summary 134, Joanne H. Pratt Associates, Dallas TX, March 1993. Also: http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs134.html Cohort(s): Mature Women, NLSY79, Young Women Publisher: Joanne H. Pratt Associates Keyword(s): Earnings; Occupations; Private Sector; Self-Employed Workers; Small Business (Owner/Employer) This project was carried our for the Office of Advocacy, United States Small Business Administration under contract SBA-6647-OA-91. Home was always a place to work until the industrial age. When manufacturing tools became too big and expensive to use at home, people moved off farms to work in factories. In today's information age, technology is providing people with a "virtual office" -- which permits them to work wherever they are. This study shows that one of the places that people work is in the home. The goal of this study is to describe quantitatively, the reality of work at home. Earnings, age, time spent, and satisfaction of young men and women who operate a homebased business are compared. The findings also dispel the fears of employers that employees cannot be trusted to work at home and the concerns that homebased work exploits employees. Telecommuters closely resemble non-telecommuters in their work habits. Three NLS cohorts are analyzed for this study: 1988 surveys of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) (men and women ages 23 to 30) and Young Women (women ages 34 to 44), and the 1989 survey of Mature Women (women ages 52 to 66). Four labor market categories of each cohort are examined: self-employed 1) homebased business owners and 2) non-homebased business owners; and wage and salary 3) telecommuters and 4) non-telecommuters. |
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Pratt, Joanne H. "Myths and Realities of Working at Home: Characteristics of Homebased Business Owners and Telecommuters." Small Business Research Summary 134, Joanne H. Pratt Associates, Dallas TX, March 1993. |