population of the developing world. After profiling how worker characteristics vary by employment status, it classifies self … a secondary source of household income. Third, as per capita income increases, the structure of employment shifts … rapidly, first out of agriculture into unsuccessful non-agricultural self-employment, and then mainly into non …

not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as "jobless …

Estimates of labor mobility costs are needed to assess the responses of employment and wages to trade shocks when … estimator matches the changes in observed sectoral employment allocations with the predicted allocations from a model of costly …

Using individual level employment data from Bangladesh, this paper presents empirical evidence on the relative … importance of farm and urban linkages for rural nonfarm employment. The econometric results indicate that high return wage work … and self-employment in nonfarm activities cluster around major urban centers. The negative effects of isolation on high …

Chile, the author finds little evidence that self-employment is the residual sector of a dualistic labor market, as is often … depicted in the literature. Data on transitions between sectors show that self-employment is not a free-entry sector, and that … entrepreneurs can be "pushed" out of self-employment just as others are pushed out of formal employment during economic downturns …

evaluate the short-run effects of one possible exit strategy-programs that promote self-employment-in Argentina. They provide … evidence that a small fraction of beneficiaries were attracted by this program. Overall, potential participants to self-employment … that only a subset of participants (younger and more educated beneficiaries, and with previous self-employment experience …

to pool risks, or to self-insure against losses because of the death, or disability of a household member, unexpected … loss of employment, or inability to work in old age. But many of the policy recommendations that can be drawn from the …

self-employment among applicants, but that the effects are small in absolute terms. In addition, the employment rate among … participants remains unchanged, pointing to a partial substitution from wage employment to self-employment. The evidence shows that …