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Living in rural areas and self-employment
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022
. We also study the time devoted to market work, and monthly earnings, of self-employed workers in rural and urban areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821909
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Self-employment differentials among foreign-born STEM and non-STEM workers
Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017
an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage points. We find empirical support for differing earnings opportunities as a … partial explanation for this self-employment gap. High wages in STEM paid-employment combined with reduced earnings in self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641423
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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity
Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229936
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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity : conference paper
Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014
Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486749
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Is self-employment a way to escape from skill mismatches?
Albiol Sanchez, Judit; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Teruel, Graciela - 2015
During the last two decades, skill mismatches have become one of the most important issues of policy concern in the EU (European Commission, 2008). Hence, the literature has stressed the necessity to reduce skill mismatches. We contribute to this literature by analyzing the impact of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513338
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The power of (non) positive thinking : self-employed pessimists earn more than optimists
Dawson, Christopher; De Meza, David E.; Henley, Andrew; … - 2015
relationship between earnings and prior optimism. It finds that self-employed optimists earn less than self-employed realists …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308476
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The post crisis growth in the self-employed : volunteers or reluctant recruits?
Henley, Andrew - 2015
self-employment, and regression correlation with indicators of labour market conditions (unemployment, earnings) in the … earnings in the local area. These correlation patterns, although varying in size, hold for men and women, and are robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308514
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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
. Predicted earnings of self-employed immigrants are higher throughout most of their work life relative to wage/salary immigrants … predicted earnings across national origin group of self-employed immigrants. The low variation in predicted earnings across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336868
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346629
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Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous … the population and average earnings ratios are used as instruments to control for self-selection into self-employment and … consequently identify the inverse Mills correction term in the earnings models. Self-employed immigrants do substantially better in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313956