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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
The objective of this paper is to assess the relationship between the health and the income from work of wage earners and self-employed workers in Cameroon. Health status is measured by a self-assessment of an individual's health; and income is measured by the monthly wage of the wage earners...
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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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Estimating Workforce Disposal in the Italian Labour Market
Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast …-term unemployed or leave the workforce altogether, never to regain regular employment even after as long as twenty years. Many join … the ranks of the irregular economy, many drop out of the labour force. "Workforce disposal" refers to the process …
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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?
Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special attention to the role of occupational restructuring as a conveying mechanism. Using linked employer-employee data, we find that offshoring involves job destruction, especially...
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Temporary Contracts and Young Workers' Job Satisfaction in Italy
Bruno, Giovanni S. F.; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Dessy, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The Italian process of flexibilization of the labour market has created a dual market populated by protected permanent employees and unprotected temporary workers. The latter comprises not only temporary employment relationships but also autonomous collaborations used by firms as low-cost de...
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Job Satisfaction and Self-Selection into the Public or Private Sector: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Danzer, Natalia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Are public sector jobs better than private sector jobs? To answer this question, this paper investigates observed differences in job satisfaction between public- and private-sector workers and disentangles the effect of worker sorting from the one caused by sector-specific job characteristics. A...
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