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 …

Hundreds of thousands of Europeans enter self-employment each year, but because self-employment spells are typically … brief, many of them exit soon after entry. We examine how those who return to paid-employment fare on the labour market … spells of self-employment do not increase average hourly earnings upon return to paid-employment. For highly educated men, an …

The share of self-employment in total employment has been growing in Canada throughout the 1990s. Recent research for … Canada and elsewhere suggests that some workers may be `pushed’ into self-employment as a response to inadequate … opportunities in the paid sector. Examining transitions from paid work to self-employment using the Labour Market Activity Survey …