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Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...
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, we use rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1985 to 2017 and a difference … this traumatic event. Our findings imply that policies encouraging entrepreneurship should also carefully consider the …
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ambiguities and estimates it for data from 23 OECD countries between 1974 and 2002. The empirical results confirm the existence of …
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Due to the pandemic-induced economic crisis, self-employed individuals are currently suering considerable income losses. The self-employed and the members in their households usually form an economic unit. As a consequence, the income cuts not only aect the self-employed themselves but also the...
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entrepreneurship entry and exit intentions during the pandemic. To that end, we analyze primary survey data we collected in the … remote work also matter for entrepreneurial intentions. Our findings enhance the understanding of entrepreneurship formation … and closure in a time of adversity and suggest that implementing entrepreneurship training and upskilling policies during …
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Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...
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Canadian employers are largely small businesses. Their relevance for job creation and labour demand is integral for policymakers concerned with adverse labour market outcomes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) we document how the self-employed,...
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entrepreneurship based on the "impressionable years hypothesis". Accordingly, we empirically investigate the relationship between bad … economic conditions during youth and later-life entrepreneurship using Gallup from 2009 to 2014. The identification is achieved … conditions when young can significantly predict higher entrepreneurship in later life. For example, experiencing at least one …
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-employment. Specifically, I utilize German longitudinal data for the period 2002-2014 and difference-in-differences estimations and find that … both switches from unemployment to self-employment (necessity entrepreneurship) and transitions from regular employment to … self-employment (opportunity entrepreneurship) lead to health enhancements for entrepreneurs with and without employees …
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