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Entering and leaving self-employment : a panel data analysis for 12 developing countries

Cho, Yoonyoung; Robalino Aguirre, David A.; Romero, Jose M. - 2015

This paper examines the determinants of labor market transitions into and out of self-employment (own-account work and employer), using panel data from 12 developing countries in multiple regions. Despite cross-country heterogeneity, a few consistent patterns emerge. Entering the labor market...

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By choice and by necessity : entrepreneurship and self-employment in the developing world

Margolis, David N. - 2014

Over half of all workers in the developing world are self-employed. Although some self-employment is chosen by entrepreneurs with well-defined projects and ambitions, roughly two thirds results from individuals having no better alternatives. The importance of self-employment in the overall...

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A tale of minorities : evidence on religious ethics and entrepreneurship from Swiss census data

Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2014

significantly higher propensity for entrepreneurship. The estimated difference ranges between 2.3 and 4.4 percentage points. Our …

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Born entrepreneur? : adolescents' personality characteristics and self-employment in adulthood

Viinikainen, Jutta; Heineck, Guido; Böckerman, Petri; … - 2016

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

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Why did self-employment increase so strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2015

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

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Does education enhance entrepreneurship?

Ahn, Kunwon; Winters, John V. - 2021

. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years … education for men. The results suggest that formal education enhances entrepreneurship. …

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Too cold to venture there? : January temperature and immigrant self-employment across the United States

Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2021

Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However, we document that immigrant self-employment...

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Wage employment, unemployment and self-employment across countries

Poschke, Markus - 2019

Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high...

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Prediction based on entrepreneurship-prone personality profiles : sometimes worse than the toss of a coin

Konon, Alexander; Kritikos, Alexander - 2018

The human personality predicts a wide range of activities and occupational choices - from musical sophistication to entrepreneurial careers. However, which method should be applied if information on personality traits is used for prediction and advice? In psychological research, group profiles...

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