This paper examines the earnings premiums associated with different types of employment in 73 countries. Workers are …, there are large net shifts from non-professional own-account work into formal wage employment. Across all regions and income …

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 …

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 …

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

This paper analyzes how the employment/productivity profile of growth and its sectoral pattern are correlated with …. They also identify some conditions of the labor market and the economic environment that are associated with employment …-intensive growth or specific sectoral growth. The results show that, in the short run, although the aggregate employment-rate intensity …

Unlike the well-developed literature on the employment impact of the minimum wage in industrial nations, very little is … variation in the rate of increase and compare changes in employment in the clothing, textile, footwear, and leather industries … the legislation. They obtain matched difference-in-difference estimates of the employment impact using a census of all …

The authors examine the factors affecting the transition to self-employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, using the World … activity. The analysis identifies individuals that switched to self-employment (employers and own account) during the sample … in self-employment. After controlling for household wealth, having an existing bank relationship increases the likelihood …

of Congo, Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania. It shows that first, self-employment tends to provide marginally lower …. Women on average earn less than men when they are self-employed and in wage employment, but also have less volatile earnings …