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Jump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence among Welfare Participants in Argentina
Almeida, Rita; Galasso, Emanuela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
paper evaluates the short run effects of one possible exit strategy, programs that promote self-employment, in Argentina. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822998
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Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina's Downturns
Cruces, Guillermo; Glüzmann, Pablo; López-Calva, Luis … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371881
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The Weight of the Crisis: Evidence from Newborns in Argentina
Bozzoli, Carlos; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694994
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Is Informal Sector Work an Alternative to Workfare Benefits? The Case of Pre-Program Expansion and Economic Crisis
Khamis, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Limited availability of workfare programs and unemployment insurance and a large informal sector are features of the Argentine labor market at the outset of the 2001 economic crisis. This paper tests the hypothesis whether informal work is an alternative to workfare participation before a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514870
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Returns to Education and Macroeconomic Shocks: Evidence from Argentina
López Bóo, Florencia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Returns to schooling in urban Argentina increased from 1992 to 2003, a period of economic reforms and macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522424
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Unemployment Assistance and Transition to Employment in Argentina
Iturriza, Ana; Bedi, Arjun S.; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In 2001-02, Argentina experienced a wrenching economic crisis. Plan Jefes, implemented in May 2002, was Argentina …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703463
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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might be termed 'stigmatisation of failure': taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed is said to be much more difficult here than in other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822063
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Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice
Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … persist in the market, and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage … entrepreneurship where agents are heterogeneous in their ability as workers, and starting entrepreneurs face uncertainty about their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822184
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Entrepreneurial Entry: Which Institutions Matter?
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822242
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The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Akee, Randall K. Q.; Jaeger, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous selfemployment experience in an immigrant’s country of origin is an important determinant of their self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being self-employed by about 7 percent. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822432