employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct … employment boom - contributed only marginally, if at all, to the rise in female labor supply. The increasing proportion of women …

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 women working fewer hours than men. In contrast variables like family …

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 …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … very important - but specific - function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity …, recent studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of …

economic turmoil in 1992-1995. Despite the catastrophic fall in GDP employment contracted only marginally. This flexibility has … been achieved mainly through the informalization of employment, and through the reallocation of labor towards small … of the Georgian labor force relies on self-employment as the primary means to earn an income. For some, this is an avenue …

but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment … transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

plays a role, highlighting potential shirking and moral hazard problems in paid employment. …

health, income, and selection into each employment status. The data used in this study is obtained from the 2007 Cameroon …

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the "jack … become self-employed and those ending up in paid employment. …

employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use … formal sector. Yet the dual structure is not balanced in the same way in all three countries. Most of the self-employment …