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Characterisation of Self-Employment in Spain. An Analysis from the Gender Perspective
Castro Nuñez, Belén - 2015
The growing presence of women on the Spanish labour market in the last few decades has revealed gender inequalities that affect both participation indicators such the activity or unemployment rate, and working conditions (working hours, contract duration, salaries, etc.). There are also...
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Explaining Preferences and Actual Involvement in Self-Employment : New Insights into the Role of Gender
Verheul, I. - 2013
This paper investigates why women's self-employment rates are consistently lower than those of men. It has three focal points. It discriminates between the preference for self-employment and actual involvement in self-employment using a two (probit) equation model. It makes a systematic...
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Gendered motives towards hybrid entrepreneurial intentions : empirical evidence from China
Liu, Zhiyang; Wu, Guixing - In: International studies of economics 17 (2022) 1, pp. 36-64
Hybrid entrepreneurship research is to probe into the increasingly widespread phenomenon of "employment + entrepreneurship" in real life, and to break the traditional practice of dichotomizing self-employment and employment. Hybrid entrepreneurship provides entrepreneurs with another employment...
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ICT skills and labor market outcomes in India : evidence from cell tower expansion
Azam, Mehtabul; Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2024
Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey, 2020), we provide evidence on the effects of ICT skills on labor market outcomes and household welfare as measured by per capita expenditure. We study the effects both at the...
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What about the women? : female headship, poverty and vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam
Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Povel, Felix - 2011
panel data of over 4000 rural households from Thailand and Vietnam, we find strong signs of heterogeneity among the … and less vulnerable to poverty than households with a male head. In Vietnam de jure female-headed households are … male-headed households in terms of the analyzed welfare dimensions. These results show how widows and singles in Vietnam …
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Exploring regional and gender disparities in Beninese primary school attendance : a multilevel approach
McNabb, Kyle - 2017
This study combines household survey data from the Beninese Demographic and Health Survey with school supply statistics in order to investigate regional and gender disparities in primary school attendance rates in Benin. Despite almost unparalleled increases in enrolment since the 1990s, Benin...
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Rental markets, gender, and land certificates : evidence from Viet Nam
Ayala-Cantu, Luciano; Morando, Bruno - 2018
The way property rights affect land rental market behaviour is one of the key issues in development economics. In this paper we show the relationship between land use certificates and the compensation landlords receive when they lease out land to their relatives. We find that female-headed...
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COVID-19: a crisis of the female self-employed
Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2021 - This version: March 10,2021
We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the government-mandated measures to contain its spread, affect the self-employed – particularly women – in Germany. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data in which respondents were asked about their...
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The population of non-corporate business proprietors in England and Wales 1891-1911
Bennett, Robert J.; Smith, Harry; Montebruno, Piero - In: Business history 62 (2020) 8, pp. 1341-1372
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Minority self-employment in the United States and the impact of affirmative action programs
Blanchflower, David G. - 2008
"n this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper that related to the UK. Data on random samples of approximately twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic...
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