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Impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021

This study estimates random effects and difference-in-difference-in-differences models to examine the initial impacts of COVID-19 on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using monthly panel data from the Current Population Survey. For these workers, effects were...

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Macroeconomic contractions during impressionable years and entrepreneurship in later adulthood

Sotirakopoulos, Panagiotis; Guven, Cahit; Ulker, Aydogan; … - 2021

We argue that past events experienced during the critical ages of 18-25 can influence an individual's future entrepreneurship based on the "impressionable years hypothesis". Accordingly, we empirically investigate the relationship between bad economic conditions during youth and later-life...

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Being your own boss and bossing others : the moderating effect of managing others on work meaning and autonomy for the self-employed and employees

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris; Boudreaux, … - 2021

We examine the moderating role of being a supervisor for meaning and autonomy of self-employed and employed workers. We … more work meaningfulness and autonomy compared with being a salaried supervisor working for an employer. Wage supervisors … work longer hours. Moreover, solo entrepreneurs experience slightly less work meaningfulness, but more autonomy compared …

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Self-employment and subjective well-being

Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin - 2021

-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an …

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Personal characteristics and intention for entrepreneurship

Yalcintas, Murat; Iyigun, Oykü; Karabulut, Gokhan - 2021

This study analyzes the relationship between entrepreneurship intention and personal characteristics and skills by using the surveys we conducted in Turkey on 1465 senior university students. We use a modified version of the Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) scale and the Political Skills...

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The short-term effect of COVID-19 on self-employed workers in Canada

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020

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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The Labour Force Status of Transgender People and The Impact of Removing Surgical Requirements to Change Gender on ID Documents

Mann, Samuel - 2020

This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive,...

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Canadian small businesses' employees and owners during COVID-19

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020

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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Self-employment differentials among foreign-born STEM and non-STEM workers

Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017

This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage...

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The employment impact of microcredit program participation in Bangladesh : evidence from a longitudinal household survey

Hussain, A. K. M. Ghulam; Nargis, Nigar; Ashiquzzaman, … - 2017

Microcredit program, originating in Bangladesh in the late 1970s, has played an important role to meet the financing needs of the impoverished communities around the world. While the successes and failures of microcredit in lifting the poor out of poverty have been recorded in a wide array of...

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