reforms should have had an effect on the employment duration within temporary work agencies. Based on an informative … administrative data set we use hazard rate models to examine whether the employment duration has changed in response to these reforms … employment duration while the authorization of fixed-term contracts reduced employment tenure …

return in industrial countries. The return varies, however, by gender, rural or urban residence, and the share of agriculture … in the economy. Furthermore, more educated workers typically end up in wage employment and prefer nonfarm … entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …) constraints faced by entrepreneurs when optimizing the profitable employment of their education. Entrepreneurs have more personal … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. …