TY - JOUR AU - Montero, Rodrigo AU - Pérez, Joaquín PY - 2022/06/03 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Economic cycles and self-employment: Synthetic Cohort Analysis for Greater Santiago JF - Estudios de Economía JA - Estudios de economía VL - 49 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://revistas.uchile.cl/index.php/EDE/article/view/67359 SP - pp. 5-30 AB - Economic cycles affect both unemployment and the composition of employment, which can have an impact on the well-being of individuals if these changes in composition are involuntary or involve a decrease in the quality of employment. In this article, we study the relationship between economic cycles and self-employment, distinguishing between employers and own-account workers, through a synthetic cohort methodology using data for Chile. The results suggest that the proportion of employers is procyclical and that of own-account workers is countercyclical. This suggests that own-account employment is a refuge in times of crisis from the shortage of wage-based employment. This highlights the importance of designing public policies that would improve the conditions of self-employed workers. ER -