Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self-employment … of data often is insufficient and difficult to access due to language barriers. We present an analysis of Swedish self-employment …

, Romania and Sweden. [...] …

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 …

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 …

We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment …

self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in … monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to women working fewer hours than men. In contrast variables like family …

employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use … formal sector. Yet the dual structure is not balanced in the same way in all three countries. Most of the self-employment …

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …) constraints faced by entrepreneurs when optimizing the profitable employment of their education. Entrepreneurs have more personal … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. …