determinants of entry into self-employment. They demonstrate that the oft-cited positive relationship between entry rates and … demonstrate that bifurcating the sample into workers who enter self-employment after job loss and those who do not reveals … significantly positive determinant of entry into self-employment. Our estimates indicate that a 10 percent annual increase in …

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women …, if women who are employed tend to have relatively high-wage characteristics, low female employment rates may become …, all countries in which gender employment gaps are high. In particular, correction for employment selection explains more …

substantially better than the popular Markov model. The Polya model implies far less state dependence in employment status than the …