By considering entrepreneurs who hire employees – employers – and entrepreneurs without personnel – own-account workers – as related but distinct groups within entrepreneurship, this work analyzes the roles of different factors in entrepreneurship survival from a new perspective:...

This study aims to improve our understanding of overqualification by incorporating distinctions in employment status (i.e., self-employed workers, private employees and public employees) in the analysis of the effects, dynamics and routes out of overqualification. To this end, we apply discrete...

The aim of this article is to evaluate the promotion of self-employment as an employment strategy at the macroeconomic level, taking into account the potential existence of asymmetric effects of such policies across nations. In particular, we examine whether the employment intensity of...