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Entrepreneurship and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Sweden
Nykvist, Jenny - 2005
wealth and transition into entrepreneurship is positive but diminishing for the major part of the wealth distribution … transition into entrepreneurship in Sweden. … between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321582
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Self-Selection And Earnings During Volatile Transition
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263229
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Where to work?: The role of the household in explaining gender differences in labour market outcomes
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2006
explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274520
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Self-employment and wage earning: Hungary during transition
Co, Catherine Y.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or non-working for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs for workers only....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318374
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Digital adoption, automation, and labor markets in developing and emerging economies
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Mandelman, Federico S. - 2019
We document a strong negative link between self-employment and the rate of digital adoption by firms in developing and emerging economies. No link between digital adoption and the unemployment rate is found, however. To explain this evidence, we build a general equilibrium search-and-matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389577
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The dynamics of combining self-employment and employment
Delmar, Frédéric; Folta, Timothy; Wennberg, Karl - 2008
This study examines the extent to which wage-earning workers are simultaneously self-employed, a phenomenon not thoroughly investigated in earlier studies. We use matched employee-employer databases to present a detailed investigation of self-employment patterns within the post industrial...
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Credibility of monetary policy in four accession countries: A Markov regime-switching approach
Arestis, Philip; Mouratidis, Kostas - 2003
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Business cycle dynamics in the CEE countries: a political economy approach
Adalet, Müge; Öz, Sumru - 2010
the sample into the late 1990s and 2000s due to the transition nature of these economies in the former period shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273651
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Property Values and the Likelihood of Self-Employment
Hansson, Åsa; Kopsch, Fredrik - 2020
It is well known that capital constraints can hinder individuals to set up a business. Many business owners rely on own capital or capital from friends, fools and family in order to acquire required capital. In this paper, we study the role property plays for starting a business or becoming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208889
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Assessing the returns to education in Georgia
Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2010
The economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The … present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition … estimates from other transition countries. A further analysis of the shifts in the supply and demand for education sheds light …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286544