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The Quest to Understand Self-employment in American Metropolitan Areas

Department of Sociology, Hunter College, The City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA, joonghwan.oh{at}hunter.cuny.edu

The mechanisms shaping a shift in intrametropolitan self-employment remain poorly understood. In response, this study aims to examine shifts in both central-city and suburban self-employment by integrating the changing forces of intrametropolitan economy and population with their economic interdependence within an entire metropolitan area. Using a change-score model, data collected over two time-periods (1980—90 and 1990—2000) are pooled. The analysis shows that a decline in intrametropolitan manufacturing employment, which can be understood as an aspect of local economic restructuring, leads to an increase in intrametropolitan self-employment. Also, the data suggest that a rise in metropolitan-level immigrant population contributes to the growth of central-city self-employment. Moreover, this paper demonstrates that a shift in central-city self-employment is affected by both central-city and suburban economic transformations.

Urban Studies, Vol. 45, No. 9, 1769-1790 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0042098008093378


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