Search Results - subject:"Own-account"

Aguiar, Sebastián; Coitiño, Mauricio; Matonte, Cecilia; … - 2024

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When You Can't Afford to Wait for a Job: The Role of Time Discounting for Own-Account Workers in Developing Countries

Scarelli, Thiago; Margolis, David N. - 2023

sufficiently high subjective discount rate can justify the choice for own-account work even when it pays less than wage work. With … this simple model, we estimate a lower bound for the discount rate that is implicit in the occupational choice of urban own-account …

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When you can't afford to wait for a job : the role of time discounting for own-account workers in developing countries

Scarelli, Thiago; Margolis, David N. - 2023

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Economic cycles and self-employment: Synthetic cohort analysis for Greater Santiago

Montero, Rodrigo; Pérez, Joaquín - In: Estudios de Economía 49 (2022) 1, pp. 5-30

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 …

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Economic cycles and self-employment : synthetic cohort analysis for Greater Santiago

Montero, Rodrigo; Pérez, Joaquín - In: Estudios de economía 49 (2022) 1, pp. 5-30

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What determines own-account work in Colombia? Some empirical evidence for the years 2010 and 2013

Burbano Vallejo, Edy Lorena; Castro Aristizabal, Geovanny; … - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 32 (2021), pp. 274-299

assets, as well as other personal and socio-economic characteristics on the probability of being a formal or informal own-account … that physical assets and access to credit have a positive marginal effect on the probability of being an own-account worker …

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What determines own-account work in Colombia? : some empirical evidence for the years 2010 and 2013

Burbano Vallejo, Edy Lorena; Castro Aristizabal, Geovanny; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 32 (2021), pp. 274-299

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796296

When you can't afford to wait for a job : the role of time discounting for own-account workers in developing countries

Scarelli, Thiago; Margolis, David N. - 2021

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596470

Financial intermediation and occupational choice

Gu, Jiajia - In: Journal of economic dynamics & control 133 (2021), pp. 1-26

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The dynamics of solo self-employment: Persistence and transition to employership

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Wunder, Christoph - 2017

This study examines dynamics of solo self-employment. In particular, we investigate the extent of true state dependence and cross state dependence, i.e., whether experiencing solo selfemployment causally affects the probability of becoming an employer in the future. We use data from the German...

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