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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching : a comparison between immigrants and natives

Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2018

The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and...

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Is self-employment for migrants? : evidence from Italy

Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2023 - This draft: July 2023

Using a unique Italian dataset covering the period 2004-2020, we assess the immigrant-native gap in entrepreneurship … and investigate channels behind it. The data allows us to account for many observable characteristics as well as for risk …

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Explaining preferences and actual involvement in self-employment : new insights into the role of gender

Verheul, Ingrid (contributor); … - 2008

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Education and regional job creation by the self-employed : the English North-South divide

Burke, Andrew (contributor); FitzRoy, Felix R. (contributor) - 2006

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Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Kapur, Kanika; Gates, Susan M. - 2009

limited research on the topic of "entrepreneurship lock" by using recent panel data from matched Current Population Surveys … entrepreneurship probability for those without spousal coverage than for those with spousal coverage. We also take a new approach in … the literature to examine the question of whether employer-based health insurance discourages entrepreneurship by …

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Self-employed but looking : a labor market experiment

Koellinger, Philipp D.; Mell, Julija; Pohl, Irene; … - 2012

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Are household surveys like tax forms : evidence from income underreporting of the self-employed

Hurst, Erik; Li, Geng; Pugsley, Benjamin - 2011

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Does self-employment reduce unemployment?

Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin Anthony; Stel, … - 2005

-equation vector autoregression model capable of reconciling these ambiguities and tests it for data of 23 OECD countries over the …

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The role of dissatisfaction and per capita income in explaining self-employment across 15 European countries

Noorderhaven, Niels G.; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Wennekers, A. R. - 2004

This paper deals with explaining the sizable differences in the rate of self-employment (business ownership) across 15 European countries in the period 1978-2000, within a framework of occupational choice, focusing on the influence of dissatisfaction and of per capita income. Using two different...

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Restart-performance and the returns of previous self-employment

Metzger, Georg (contributor); Niefert, Michaela (contributor) - 2006

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