Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self … individual's experience of being self-employed, the chapter discusses evidence and explanations why self-employment is positively … enjoy higher overall life satisfaction, which is due to heterogeneity of types of self-employment, as well as motivational …

. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sub … the firm's size in terms of employment depends on the access to credit. Under the financial market imperfections, access … to credit can be a binding constraint on firm entry and employment even when the banks have sufficient liquidity. Using …

This chapter introduces identity utility to the study of (un)employment and (un)happiness. The concept is described in … showing the positive life satisfaction effect of retirement on unemployed workers. Based on this strong evidence for identity …

To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions …, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since … the early 1990s have gradually raised women's retirement age from 60 to 65, but also increased ages for several early …

- productivity, profitability and female employment. For this both a decomposition model and the Inverse Probability Weighted …