participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills … index increases the probability of salaried employment by 6.5 percentage points, and leads to a 9.5 percent higher per … capita expenditure. Employment transitions happen from daily wage employment and self-employment to salaried employment. The …

penalty associated with non-compliance. Workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees. Workers with higher … managerial skills will run larger firms while workers with lower will manage smaller firms and will be in self-employment only … when they cannot find a salary job. For these workers self-employment is a secondary/informal form of employment. The …

The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in … receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance … systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as a partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …

percent and 1 percent of the within-firm wage distribution rise substantially. Instead, the effect on average wages is small …

literature by analyzing the impact of the transition from salaried employment to self-employment on self-reported skill … that those individuals who transit from salaried employment to self-employment reduce their probability of skill mismatches …

interdependencies are taken into account and matching procedures are applied, the outcome matches to that of independent and unmatched …