paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment … for their integration in the labor market. Since the focus is on the understanding of the self-employment decision, a two …-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not …

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the … dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment … that lead to fluctuations between employment and self-employment, directly or through the unemployment state. Migrants are …

in immigration selection criteria and other policy settings, as well as in the macroeconomic employment conditions at …

-employed individuals and understand their underlying drive into self-employment. At the same time we investigate how immigrant … that the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups albeit at a decreasing rate. Among … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self …

OECD labor markets have become more “polarized” with employment in the middle of the skill distribution falling …