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Is self-employment the answer to caste discrimination? : decomposing the earnings gap in Indian household nonfarm businesses
Deshpande, Ashwini; Sharma, Smriti - 2014
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Is Self-Employment the Answer to Caste Discrimination? Decomposing the Earnings Gap in Indian Household Nonfarm Businesses
Deshpande, Ashwini - 2014
Using the India Human Development Survey data for 2004-05, we employ two methodologies to estimate the earnings … structure of household nonfarm businesses owned by Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs) and non-SCSTs: OLS estimation of mean …
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Precautionary and entrepreneurial saving : new evidence from German households
Fossen, Frank M.; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2009
The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper...
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The underreporting of income by self-employed workers in Spain
Martinez-Lopez, Diego - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 4, pp. 353-371
This paper offers estimates of the underreporting of income by selfemployed workers using the Spanish household surveys …
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Remittances and occupational outcomes of the household members left-behind
Piracha, Matloob; Randazzo, Teresa; Vadean, Florin - 2013
This paper analyses the role of remittances and migration on the occupational outcomes of the household members left …
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The Economic Impact of Education Spending : Evidence from Self-Employed Households
Kim, Olivia - 2020
I examine the consumption and labor decisions of self-employed households when a child goes to college using unique financial transactions data from the linked accounts of small businesses and their owners. Households respond to the increase in education spending by downsizing business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842769
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Youth Self-Employment in Households Receiving Remittances in Macedonia
Petreski, Marjan - 2018
The objective of this study is to investigate whether youth in households receiving remittances in Macedonia have a higher probability of establishing their own business. In addition, we investigated whether the effect of remittances on youth labour supply is homogenous across the genders and...
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Do Saving Rules Influence Self-Employed Households' Participation in Tax-Deferred Retirement Plans?
Smith, Hyrum L. - 2014
Tax-deferred retirement (TDR) plans, including Simplified Employee Pensions, Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (SIMPLEs), and solo 401(k) plans, are examples of the tax advantaged plans the federal government has developed to encourage retirement savings among the self-employed. The...
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The employment impact of microcredit program participation in Bangladesh : evidence from a longitudinal household survey
Hussain, A. K. M. Ghulam; Nargis, Nigar; Ashiquzzaman, … - 2017
household labor income isolating the biases that may result from non-random program placement, censoring in self-employment work … entrepreneurial skills or pre-existing household conditions favourable to self-employment activities. The fixed effects estimate shows … employment for a person. The income effect of microcredit program participation is more discernible on household labor income …
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Are business start-ups liquidity constrained? : evidence from a quasi-experimental allocation of housing wealth in East Germany
Fuchs, Tobias; Gebhardt, Georg - 2019
Are entrepreneurs liquidity constraint? Using quasi-random housing wealth variation resulting from communist era decisions, we argue yes, as we find that wealthier East Germans are more likely to become self-employed after reunification. In the literature, no such strong relationship was found...
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