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Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self-employed than for employees. We argue that those estimates in previous studies might be biased by neglecting anticipation and adaptation effects. For testing we specify several...
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Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self-employed than for employees. We argue that those estimates in previous studies might be biased by neglecting anticipation and adaptation effects. For testing we specify several...
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The success of the University of Arizona’s BergerEntrepreneurship Program is evaluated by comparing 460 Berger graduates with2,024 non-entrepreneurship business graduates.Survey respondents wereasked to provide, among other things, their employment history, net worth, andinformation about...
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Previous studies have found that self-employed workers with long business tenure earn less than other workers with similar characteristics. This difference in earnings can be explained by the compensating wage differential theory when self-employed jobs have attractive, non-pecuniary aspects....
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This paper describes measurement of a self-employment rate and the important role the agricultural sector plays in any analysis of the determinants of self-employment. The determinants of the self-employment rate are modeled using a panel of 23 countries for the period 1966-1996. A similar...
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It is typically assumed that people engage in entrepreneurship because there are profits to be made. In contrast to this view, this paper argues that entrepreneurship is more adequately characterized as a non-profit-seeking activity. Evidence from a broad range of authors and academic fields is...
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Those who are self-employed without employees are people whose primary activity is self-employment and do not employ others. The incorporated self-employed are only partly or non-included in the counts of self-employed in several countries. This indicator is measured by sex as percentage of...
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Those who are self-employed with employees are people whose primary activity is self-employment and who employ others. The incorporated self-employed are only partly or non-included in the counts of self-employed in several countries. This indicator is measured by gender as percentage of total...
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