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Self-Employment and The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Colombier, Nathalie; Masclet, David - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2006
We use the European Community Household Panel Survey (ECHP) to investigate the determinants of self-employment. More precisely, we consider the influence of immediate social environments and social networks on the choice of self-employment. We conjecture that self-employment is correlated across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101121
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Entrepreneurship and violent conflict in developing countries
Bruck, Tilman; Naude, Wim; Verwimp, Philip - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
entrepreneurship. These are the special issue of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (2011) and the special issue of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643215
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Entrepreneurship and Welfare
Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
We examine returns to entrepreneurship using a standard measure of welfare, the per capita consumption xpenditure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973323
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Promoting women.s economic empowerment through productive employment and social protection
Otobe, Naoko - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
The paper attempts to examine the extent to which the ILO-supported projects have contributed to women.s economic empowerment and well-being i.e., from a gender perspective. The paper provides the ILO.s perspectives on gender dimensions of employment prom
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076181
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Les déterminants organisationnels et individuels de l'emploi atypique: le cas du cumul d'emplois et du travail autonome
Guay, Philippe; Simard, Gilles; Tremblay, Michel - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2000
Traditionally, the company has been attributed relative control over employees' career paths, particularly in the case of very active organizational management. However, the growing need for organizational flexibility has led to the increasing recourse to atypical work, which in turn contributes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005417556
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Organizational and Individual Determinants of Atypical Employment: The Case of Multiple Jobholding and Self-Employment
Guay, Philippe; Simard, Gilles; Tremblay, Michel - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2000
Traditionally, the company has been attributed relative control over employees' career paths, particularly in the case of very active organizational management. However, the growing need for organizational flexibility has led to the increasing recourse to atypical work, which in turn contributes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005417561
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Travail indépendant et immigrants au Canada
Zhu, Nong; Batisse, Cecile - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2014
Using 2006 census data, the present study analyzes the determinants of immigrants' participation in self-employment in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. Our results show that the decision to become self-employed depends largely on income gap between self-employment and paid-employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183711
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The happy farmer: Self-employment and subjective well-being in rural Vietnam
Markussen, Thomas; Fibaek, Maria; Tarp, Finn; Nguyen, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Using survey data from rural Vietnam, this paper documents a statistically significant, positive effect of self-employment in farming on subjective well-being. Wage workers are less happy than farmers across a range of different types of wage jobs. These
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076174
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Entrepreneurship in China: empirical results from two provinces
Krug, B.; Hendrischke, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2002
China therefore entrepreneurship depends crucially on the ability to establish firms, i.e. to find organisational forms for … entrepreneurship depends on mechanisms for co-ordinating individual or organisational behaviour of firms. These mechanisms were lacking … components of (private) entrepreneurship. One is the search for organisational forms conforming to the situational constraints …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288618
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The Emergence of a Private Business Sector in China
Krug, B.; Hendrischke, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2001
This paper is part of a broader research project that aims to analyse the emerging private business sector in China by focusing on three topics.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005505048