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This paper analyzes heterogeneity among the self-employed in 74 developing countries, representing two-thirds of the population of the developing world. After profiling how worker characteristics vary by employment status, it classifies self-employed workers outside agriculture as...
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Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...
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Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self … self-employed in the two major statistical sources on self-employment. The reported development of self …
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Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279309
claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …
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the developing world tends to be low productivity employment, and as countries move up the development path, the …
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the developing world tends to be low productivity employment, and as countries move up the development path, the …
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networks are significant in entrepreneurship, while women and older workers are less likely to become self-employed unless they …
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claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137206
entrepreneurs to start-up new businesses? In this paper we survey the literature on entrepreneurship and happiness, and use various … data sources, including from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, to find tentative evidence of an inverse U …-shape relationship between (opportunity) entrepreneurship and national happiness. We find little evidence that a nation's happiness …
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