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 …

changes from wage-and-salary to self-employment and changes from working to non-working status. In each two-year transition … approximately four percent of wage-and-salary workers switched to self-employment. They were primarily men who were previously self …-employed or who were in wage-and-salary occupations with characteristics similar to self-employment, e.g., managers and salesmen …

benefits affects the employment decisions of older veterans. We make use of variation in program eligibility resulting from a … decreased labor force participation and induced a substantially larger switch from wage employment to self-employment. This …

administrative data paint a different picture, with the former showing little evidence of the growth in self-employment that would be … individual-level survey and administrative records shows that a large and growing fraction of those with self-employment activity … in administrative data have no such activity recorded in household survey data. The share of those with self-employment …

This paper examines the relative benefits of general education and vocational training in Romania, a country which …

Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to …. Using disaggregated employment data in a new sample of nearly 10,000 establishments,this study finds that Affirmative Action … was generally successful during the late 1910's in increasing minority employment in skilled white-collar occupations as …

This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …

-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and … employment rates of African-American men. Black business ownership rates increased significantly after program initiation, with … the black-white gap falling three percentage points. The evidence that the racial gap in employment also fell is less …

This paper documents the role of the collateral lending channel to facilitate small business starts and self-employment … house prices experienced a strong increase in employment in small businesses compared to employment in large firms in the … same industries. This increase in small business employment was particularly pronounced in (1) industries that need little …