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...

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable ?quasi-experiment? for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

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...

Ein großer Teil des Leerstands im Einfamilienhaussegment lässt sich durch strukturelle Regionsmerkmale erklären. Das Ausmaß des Leerstands in einer Gemeinde hängt darüber hinaus von den baulichen Eigenschaften ab, die den Einfamilienhausbestand der Region charakterisieren. Dabei kommt es...