As low-income countries industrialize, workers choose between informal self-employment and low-skill manufacturing …. What do workers trade off, and what are the long run impacts of this occupational choice? Self-employment is thought to be … for better work. Meanwhile, the entrepreneurship program stimulated self-employment, raised earnings by 33%, provided …

-economy business cycles tend to be shallower in advanced economies than in EMDEs. Informal employment in both advanced economies and …

This paper analyzes the existence of short- and long-term intergenerational correlation of employment and self-employment … employment status of parents and that of their children. However, short-term correlation of self-employment seems to be driven …, estimates show a strong and significant correlation between respondents' self-employment status, and that of their parents when …