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Regional effect heterogeneity of start-up subsidies for the unemployed

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2013

administrative and survey data and observe participants in two distinct start-up programs in Germany for five years after start-up as …

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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016

entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

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Living in rural areas and self-employment

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022

This paper examines whether workers living in rural areas are more likely to be self-employed, compared with those in urban areas. We provide evidence for 35 European countries, using the European Working Conditions Survey for the year 2015. We also study the time devoted to market work, and...

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Pandemic depression : COVID-19 and the mental health of the self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022

longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …

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Entrepreneurship and the business environment in Africa : an application to Ethiopia

Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2013

entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business …

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Enterprising women in Southern Africa : when does land ownership matter?

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry; Tregenna, Fiona - 2020

the model on data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys in Eswatini, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe, we find land ownership to be …

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Assessing gender gaps in employment and earnings in Africa: the case of Eswatini

Brixiova, Zuzana; Imai, Susumu; Kangoye, Thierry; … - 2021

Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have...

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Gender disparities in employment and earnings in sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Kangoye, Thierry - 2016

In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing on the country's first two (2007 and 2010) Labor Force Surveys. We find that even though the global financial crisis had a less severe effect on the labor market outcomes of...

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A wage-efficiency spatial model for US self-employed workers

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016

time-use data from the American Time Use Survey 2003-2014 to analyze the spatial distribution of self-employment across …

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Short- vs long-term intergenerational correlations of employment and self-employment in Europe

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2020

-employment in European countries, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. Using longitudinal … data for the period 2003-2016, fixed effect estimates show a significant short-term correlation between the current …

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