E-Journal of International and Comparative LABOUR STUDIES

Artists have traditionally been depicted in academic literature as younger and more educated workers who gain less economic returns from their human capital investment and earn significantly lower self-employment income than workers showing similar human capital features on more traditional labour markets. Filling an important gap in the literature relating to Canadian artists and their financial situation on the labour market, this article estimates the effect of human capital features and other socio-demographic variables on self employment income of 9 categories of artists using data drawn from the Canadian census of 2006.