Bio

Publications

• "Taxes, Economic Conditions and Recent Trends in Male Self-Employment: A Canada-U.S. Comparison", Labour Economics, 7 (2000), pp. 507-544.
• "Self-Employment Dynamics and Self-Employment Trends: A Study of Canadian Men and Women, 1982-1995" with Peter Kuhn, Canadian Journal of Economics,Vol.34, No. 3, August 2001.
• "Profiles of Tax Noncompliance Among the Self-Employed in Canada, 1969-1992", Canadian Public Policy,Vol. XXVIII, No. 2, 2002
• “The Wage Effects of Experience in Self-Employment”,with Donald Bruce, Labour Economics, 11 (2004), pp.575-598.
• “The Relationship between Tax Policy and Entrepreneurship”, with Donald Bruce, Swedish Economic Policy Review, 11, No.2 (Fall, 2004), pp. 233-265.
• “Immigration, Entrepreneurship and the Venture Start-Up Process", with Heather Antecol, International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship eds. Simon C. Parker, Zoltan J. Acs, and David R. Audretsch: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Volume 2.
• “Income Splitting Among the Self-Employed", Canadian Journal of Economics Vol. 39, No.4 (November, 2006).
• “Tax Incentives and Entrepreneurship: Measurement and Data Considerations" in Measuring Entrepreneurship: Building a Statistical System ed. Emilio Congregado: Springer 2008.
• "Immigration Policy and the Self-Employment Experience of Immigrants to Canada" in Canadian Immigration: Economic Evidence for a Dynamic Policy Environment, eds. Ted McDonald, Elizabeth Ruddick, Arthur Sweetman, and Christopher Worswick: McGill-Queen’s University Press 2010.

Courses

ECON 103, Principles of Microeconomics

ECON 370, Labour Economics

ECON 371, Economics of Work and Pay

ECON 515, Labour Economics

Research Projects

Dr. Schuetze's research has focused on issues related to self-employment. The topics he has examined include: the role of taxes and economic conditions, male-female differences in self-employment dynamics, income tax non-compliance, the role of labour market policies and immigrant self-employment.