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Being The Boss And Working For A Boss: Upsides And Downsides, Justin Craig, Michael Schaper, Clay Dibrell
Being The Boss And Working For A Boss: Upsides And Downsides, Justin Craig, Michael Schaper, Clay Dibrell
Justin B. Craig
Comparatively, very little of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics (HILDA) data set has been used to analyse the activities of Australian small business owner-operators, even though there are currently some 1.8 million small firms in existence. Using multiple waves of the HILDA survey, in this paper we investigate two important research questions related to life in a small business in Australia. Question one seeks to uncover differences between small business respondents and employees of private sector firms, by examining issues related to (i) life satisfaction, (ii) job satisfaction, (iii) individual priorities, (iv) perceived prosperity, (v) risk preferences, and (vi) …