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It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew
entrepreneurship self-employment wage-employment income distribution income risk income skew income variance occupational choice labor market entry labor market segments opportunity cost
2012/10/19
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We off...
Testing the 'Residential Rootedness'-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK
self-employment migration residential mobility rootedness hypothesis UK Germany
2012/10/22
Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event', the literature argues that self-employed workers and entrepreneurs are 'rooted' in place. This paper tests the 'residential rootedness'-hy...
Funding Self-Employment: The Role of Consumer Credit
small business finance consumer credit financial intermingling
2012/10/22
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans – in particular instalment loans and overdrafts – to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financia...
Self-Employment of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
self-employment wages rural to urban migration selection bias magnets European Union
2012/10/26
This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose s...
Are Self-Employed Really Happier Than Employees? An Approach Modelling Adaptation and Anticipation Effects to Self-Employment and General Job Changes
job satisfaction self-employment hedonic treadmill model adaptation anticipation fixed-effects panel estimations German Socio-Economic Panel(SOEP)
2012/10/31
Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self-employed than for employees. We argue that those estimates in previous studies mi...
Social-Family Network and Self-Employment: Evidence from Temporary Rural-Urban Migrants in China
social-family network self-employment rural-urban migrants
2012/11/1
We hypothesize that individuals with a larger social-family network are more likely to choose self-employment. We test this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size o...
Workers' Earnings in the Philippines: Comparing Self-Employment with Wage Employment
Workers' Earnings Self-Employment Wage Employment
2010/10/8
Analysis of labor force survey (LFS) data since the early 1990s reveals several important changes in the structure of the Philippine labor force. One is the movement from self-employment to wage emplo...
About 1 in 9 workers was self-employed in 2009; as in the past, self-employment continues to be more common among men, Whites, Asians, and older workers, and in the agriculture, construction, and serv...
Profiling in Self-Employment Assistance Programs
Self-Employment Assistance Programs The U.S. Department of Labor
2009/11/6
The nature of unemployment has changed dramatically in the last
two decades. As global competition and rapidly evolving technologies
have resulted in the dislocation of millions of workers from the...
Promoting Self Employment Among the Unemployed in Hungary and Poland
Self Employment the Unemployed Hungary Poland
2009/11/6
To evaluate the effectiveness of self-employment assistance to the unemployed in Hungary and Poland more than 5,500 follow-up interviews were conducted in early 1997 by employees of local labor office...
About 1 of 11 workers in the United States was self-employed in 1994; the Current Population Survey has been the lone source of data on self-employment over the past 55 years. This article describes t...
The role of self-employment in U.S. and Canadian job growth
self-employment Canadian U.S. job growth
2009/4/15
Self-employment rates have been higher in Canada than in the United States for some time, and this tendency became more pronounced during the 1990s. This article does not attempt to explore the causes...
The 1990s showed a downward trend in self-employment rates, however, the fact that self-employment rates rise at older ages and that the baby-boom cohort is approaching retirement suggests that demogr...
Self-employment continues to be an important source of jobs in the United States; as in the past, the incidence of self-employment continues to be highest among men, whites, older workers, and in agri...
Self-employment, entrepreneurship, and the nlsy79
Self-employment entrepreneurship National Longitudinal Survey
2009/4/1
Researchers have used the rich data from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to investigate the relationship between self-employment and various job and earnings outcomes; fut...