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than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …
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The devaluation of the CFA Francs in 1994 has highlighted the relevance of fiscal coordination in African monetary unions. After 1994, African monetary unions have adopted a fiscal rule which prescribes a permanent nil or positive budgetary balance. This article studies how this fiscal rule...
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Recent financial crises in Europe as well as the periodic battles in the U.S. over the debt ceiling point to the importance of fiscal discipline among developed countries. This paper develops an open economy model, calibrated to the U.S. and a subset of the EMU, to evaluate the impact of various...
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This article examines the link between restrictions on the number of physicians and general practitioners' earnings. Using a representative panel of 6,016 French self-employed GPs over the years 1983 to 2004, we show that the policies aimed at manipulating the number of places in medical schools...
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French but also European economies are driven by micro, small and medium enterprises. However, evidence shows that micro-enterprises, representing 99 per cent of all newly created businesses, suffer from a lack of external resources, especially those created by socially excluded persons....
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their parents, as well as parental transfers which loosen the self-employment participation constraint. This result is found …
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The determinants of self-employment are widely studied in the economic literature in recent twenty years. However, in … the case of Vietnam where self-employed population takes an important proportion in workforce, it remains an under … workers' choice between self-employment and wage employment in Vietnam. We emphasize the role of expected earnings …
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Over half of all workers in the developing world are self-employed. Although some self-employment is chosen by …. The importance of self-employment in the overall distribution of jobs is determined by many factors, including social … protection systems, labor market frictions, the business environment, and labor market institutions. However, self-employment in …
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.e. Romania. Romania has a code law system with an obvious preference for the legal form. Two main steps have been taken for the …
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