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 self-employment or paid work based on the … potential gains from either type of employment; the second takes into account that the determinants of the migration decision …

Liquidity constraints can affect self-employment in a number of ways. They can prohibit potential entrepreneurs from … constraints on self-employment through the unanticipated receipt of windfall gains. The results suggest that the amount of payment … received has a positive and concave effect on the probability of entering self-employment and on the performance of an existing …

There is a tremendous diversity in the level and time-series pattern of the self-employment rate across countries … for this diversity is the stage of economic development. While the tendency for the self-employment rate to decline with … self-employment and economic development and to test an explanation for this relationship that is grounded in theory. We …

paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment … for their integration in the labor market. Since the focus is on the understanding of the self-employment decision, a two …-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not …

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the … dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment … that lead to fluctuations between employment and self-employment, directly or through the unemployment state. Migrants are …

of wealth, though in potentially complex ways. A non-parametric model of the wealth effect on self-employment is … returns at low wealth, suggesting generally low start-up costs in this setting. The aggregate self-employment rate is an …

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high … rates of self employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing unemployment in subsequent periods (the … two distinct relationships between unemployment and self-employment: the 'refugee' and 'entrepreneurial' effects. We also …

-employed individuals and understand their underlying drive into self-employment. At the same time we investigate how immigrant … that the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups albeit at a decreasing rate. Among … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self …

labour market states: self-employment, employment, and unemployment. This enables us to assess the effects of changes in … been successful in promoting the entrance into self-employment, but not in preventing the exit from self-employment. …