Search Results - subject:"Self‐employed"

New forms of employment and labour protection in China

Wei, Tu; Xueyu, Wang - 2024

In recent years, China's labour market has seen a significant rise of the new forms of employment, which differs in scale, type, and function compared to the developed economies. This study focuses on four emerging forms of the new employment patterns in China, including app-based gig work,...

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Global labor market power

Amodio, Francesco; Brancati, Emanuele; Brummund, Peter; … - 2024

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Entrepreneur characteristics and determinants of self-employment across Europe

Coates, Dermot; Lawless, Martina - 2024

opportunity and necessity motivations for becoming self-employed. The results in this paper find that one of the most significant … characteristics of the self-employed, we find that participation by women and those in younger age cohorts (19-24 and 25-29) are …

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Global labor market power

Amodio, Francesco; Brancati, Emanuele; Brummund, Peter; … - 2024

driven by a strong hump-shaped relationship with the share of self-employed workers. Labor market institutions fully account …

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Exploring entrepreneurial intentions and motivations : a comparative analysis of opportunity-driven and necessity-driven entrepreneurs

Batz Liñeiro, Aglaya; Romero Ochoa, Jhon Alexander; … - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 13 (2024), pp. 1-28

This study investigates the impact of entrepreneurial attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral controls on entrepreneurial intention among two distinct groups of entrepreneurs: opportunity-driven and necessity-driven. It also explores the relationship between entrepreneurial...

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Nursing before and after COVID-19 : outflows, inflows and self-employment

Kalb, Guyonne; Meekes, Jordy - 2024

We study nurses' labour dynamics in light of continuing nurse shortages and the COVID-19 pandemic. Using Dutch monthly administrative microdata, all nursing-qualified persons observed in January 2016 and/or in January 2020 are compared and followed for one year before and three years after both...

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Self-employment and labor market risks

Audoly, Richard - 2024

I study the labor market risks associated with being self-employed. I document that the self-employed are subject to … larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given that the self-employed … heterogeneity. This exercise suggests that extending the current U.S. unemployment insurance scheme to the self-employed comes with …

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From unemployed to self-employed : analysis of treatment effects of a dutch self-employment programme

Odding, Céline; Kok, Lucy; Kroon, Lennart; Lammers, Marloes - In: De economist : quarterly review of the Royal … 172 (2024) 1, pp. 49-99

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Long-term effects of shocks on new opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship

Congregado, Emilio; Fossen, Frank M.; Rubino, Nicola; … - 2024

The dynamics of startup activity are crucial for job creation, innovation, and a competitive economy. Does regional firm formation exhibit hysteresis, such that shocks, including those induced by temporary policy interventions, have permanent effects? Due to the pronounced heterogeneity among...

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Job expectations and financial fragility : evidence from pre-COVID Spain

Álvarez-Espiño, Marcos; Fernández-López, Sara; … - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 66 (2024) 4, pp. 1709-1733

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