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A Gender Perspective on Self-Employment Entry and Performance as Self-Employed

Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

employment status prior to entering self-employment. As performance measures we use income from self-employment, number of …. For both men and women those who enter from unemployment or inactivity are less successful in terms of income and the …

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Einkommen und Einkommensverteilung anhand der ersten Ergebnisse für die neuen und alten Bundesländer 1991

Merz, Joachim; Kirsten, Dagmar - 1995

Die Studie untersucht die Einkommen und die Einkommensverteilung der Freien Berufe anhand der Mikrozensusergebnisse für … Mikrozensusangaben der insgesamt 800.000 Befragten aus einer Sonderauswertung für die Freien Berufe werden Einkommen und …-Selbständige) gegenübergestellt. Dem Einkommen und der Einkommensverteilung der selbständigen Frauen in Freien Berufen im Vergleich zu den Männern ist …

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Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants

Constant, Amelie (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

for Germans who are in the upper end of the income distribution. “Rich” self-employed Germans enjoy a wage premium …

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The Long-Term Consequences of Entrepreneurship : Earnings Trajectories of Former Entrepreneurs

Mahieu, Jeroen; Melillo, Francesca; Thompson, Peter - 2021

Research Summary: Previous literature has documented a large short-term earnings gap for entrepreneurs that return to the wage sector. Using matched employer-employee data from the Belgian Labor Market & Social Protection Database, we document how this initial gap is remarkably persistent....

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Digital adoption, automation, and labor markets in developing and emerging economies

Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Mandelman, Federico S. - 2019

We document a strong negative link between self-employment and the rate of digital adoption by firms in developing and emerging economies. No link between digital adoption and the unemployment rate is found, however. To explain this evidence, we build a general equilibrium search-and-matching...

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The collaborative economy in Poland and Europe : a tool for boosting female employment?

Beaumont, Karolina - 2016

The collaborative economy is a relatively new economic approach based on peer-to-peer transactions. It includes the shared creation, production and consumption of goods and services accessible for all through online platforms and smartphone applications. It is a burgeoning business model that is...

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Self-employment and poverty in developing countries : the right policies can help the self-employed to boost their earnings above the poverty level and earn more for the work they...

Fields, Gary S. - 2014

A key way for the world's poor - nearly half of humanity - to escape poverty is to earn more for their labor. Most of the world's poor people are self-employed, but because there are few opportunities in most developing countries for them to earn enough to escape poverty, they are working hard...

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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...

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Can working conditions explain the return-to-entrepreneurship puzzle?

Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2013

Most self-employed would apparently earn higher earnings if they were working in paid employment. One explanation for this “return-to-entrepreneur-ship puzzle” could be that entrepreneurship entails substantial non-monetary bene-fits, such as autonomy, flexibility, and task variety....

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Self-employment and labor market risks

Audoly, Richard - 2024

I study the labor market risks associated with being self-employed. I document that the self-employed are subject to larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given that the self-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I...

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