This study investigates the employment and wage disparities between people with and without disabilities. It shows that …, the potentially greater job flexibility offered by self-employment, and discrimination against people with disabilities …

, approx. one million are old age pensioners (with additional income from self-employment) and two million part-time self … information on the structure of start-ups, e.g. with regard to the employment status and income situation of a person as well as …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

search model with (i) precautionary savings, (ii) work opportunities in paid- and self-employment, (iii) skill heterogeneity … increase in the transition rate from self-employment to unemployment and an unequal benefits to contributions ratio across …

Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self-employment … are more likely to exit towards employment in the wage sector, suggesting that entrepreneurship represents for them an … intermediate step from non-employment to paid employment. …

the economic returns to business ownership among low-skilled workers and addresses the essential question of whether self-employment … substantial differences in the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity - women and immigrants … the returns to low-skilled self-employment among men are relatively high we find that wage/salary employment is a …

, which raises concerns that the bundling of health insurance and employment may create an inefficient level of business …