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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...

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Absence from Work of the Self-Employed: A Comparison with Paid Employees

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals and paid employees. We find that absence from work is clearly less prevalent among the self-employed than among paid employees. Only to a small extent, this difference can be...

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Health and Labour Income of Wage Earners and Self-Employed Workers in Cameroon

Fomba Kamga, Benjamin; Kengne Kamga, Arline; Audibert, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

probit estimation process. We find that, for men, the effect of income on health status is positive and significant for wage …

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Start-up Success of Freelancers: New Microeconometric Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Merz, Joachim; Paic, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

If certain start-up characteristics will indicate a business success, knowing such characteristics could generate more successful start-ups and more efficient start-up counseling. Our study will contribute to this by quantifying individual success determinants of freelance start-ups. The data...

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Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the "jack-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...

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Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...

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Ethnic Goods and Immigrant Assimilation

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...

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The Psychic Costs of Migration: Evidence from Irish Return Migrants

Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

alcohol problems than men who stayed. For women, we again see a higher incidence of alcohol problems for short-term migrants …. However, long-term female migrants are less likely to have suffered from alcohol problems. …

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Do Migrants Get Good Jobs in Australia? The Role of Ethnic Networks in Job Search

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Junankar, Pramod N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants’ job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of … result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since 1997, we study whether this increases the probability that new migrants … view. However, accounting for their higher employability, new migrants seem to fare better up to a year and half after …

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Extremism within the Family

Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

social traits of parents has an effect on the segregation of minorities and migrants. …

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