Bargain, Olivier; El Badaoui, Eliane; Kwenda, Prudence; … - 2013
We develop a model where workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees and where there is … managerial ability will run smaller firms and will be in self-employment only when they cannot find a salaried job. For these … workers self-employment is a secondary/informal form of employment. The Burdett and Mortensen (1998) equilibrium search model …