As low-income countries industrialize, workers choose between informal self-employment and low-skill manufacturing …. What do workers trade off, and what are the long run impacts of this occupational choice? Self-employment is thought to be … for better work. Meanwhile, the entrepreneurship program stimulated self-employment, raised earnings by 33%, provided …

plays a role, highlighting potential shirking and moral hazard problems in paid employment. …

This paper analyzes the existence of short- and long-term intergenerational correlation of employment and self-employment … employment status of parents and that of their children. However, short-term correlation of self-employment seems to be driven …, estimates show a strong and significant correlation between respondents' self-employment status, and that of their parents when …

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 …

This paper examines the impact of micro-credit on employment. Household-level data was collected, following a quasi … employment away from employment-for-pay to self-employment. Therefore, the effect on total employment is ambiguous. OLS and fixed … effects regression are used to examine separately self-employment and employment-for-pay between three groups of borrowers …

This paper examines the earnings premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are … from non-professional own account work into formal wage employment. Across all regions and income levels, non …

original data as formally working, but are likely to be engaged in the labor force on the basis of the self- employment of …

This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self …-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups … effects on employment and hours. …

effective policy tool to improve long-term employment and income prospects of participants, in particular compared to other …