literature using search models to study labor market informality: should informal self-employment and informal employment as … indicates the source of the difference in the high dispersion of informal self-employment income and in the low duration of …

A feature of employment at older ages that has been observed in many countries, including Ireland, is the higher share … of self-employment among older labour force participants. This pattern of higher self-employment rates at the end of the … transitions into self-employment at older ages. In this paper, we use data from four waves of the Irish Longitudinal Study on …

As low-income countries industrialize, workers choose between informal self-employment and low-skill manufacturing …. What do workers trade off, and what are the long run impacts of this occupational choice? Self-employment is thought to be … for better work. Meanwhile, the entrepreneurship program stimulated self-employment, raised earnings by 33%, provided …

This paper analyzes the self-employment decision among Swedish-born male employees. The main objective of the paper is … four different measures of success as self-employed: income from self-employment, number of employees, turnover of the firm …

initial formulation assumes an integrated labour market and allows for entrepreneurship, self-employment and wage employment …. We then introduce labour market segmentation. In equilibrium voluntary and involuntary self-employment, formal and … informal wage employment, and formal and informal entrepreneurship may all coexist. We illustrate the model by an example …

employment decisions for both self-employed natives and immigrants …

This paper analyzes the existence of short- and long-term intergenerational correlation of employment and self-employment … employment status of parents and that of their children. However, short-term correlation of self-employment seems to be driven …, estimates show a strong and significant correlation between respondents' self-employment status, and that of their parents when …

This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self …-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups … effects on employment and hours …