As low-income countries industrialize, workers choose between informal self-employment and low-skill manufacturing …. What do workers trade off, and what are the long run impacts of this occupational choice? Self-employment is thought to be … for better work. Meanwhile, the entrepreneurship program stimulated self-employment, raised earnings by 33%, provided …

changes from wage-and-salary to self-employment and changes from working to non-working status. In each two-year transition … approximately four percent of wage-and-salary workers switched to self-employment. They were primarily men who were previously self …-employed or who were in wage-and-salary occupations with characteristics similar to self-employment, e.g., managers and salesmen …

benefits affects the employment decisions of older veterans. We make use of variation in program eligibility resulting from a … decreased labor force participation and induced a substantially larger switch from wage employment to self-employment. This …

administrative data paint a different picture, with the former showing little evidence of the growth in self-employment that would be … individual-level survey and administrative records shows that a large and growing fraction of those with self-employment activity … in administrative data have no such activity recorded in household survey data. The share of those with self-employment …

This paper examines the relative benefits of general education and vocational training in Romania, a country which …

Disappointing recent growth rates, the emergence of structurally unfavorable income and employment conditions, and …

Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to …. Using disaggregated employment data in a new sample of nearly 10,000 establishments,this study finds that Affirmative Action … was generally successful during the late 1910's in increasing minority employment in skilled white-collar occupations as …

-wage jobs in higher-earning industries and occupations not just by raising employment. Training in transferable and certifiable … skills (likely under-provided from poaching concerns) and reductions of employment barriers to high-wage sectors for non …