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Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

options. Utilizing data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of …

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Low-skilled immigrant entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2009

-employed. Utilizing longitudinal data from the 1996, 2001 and 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation panels, this paper analyzes …

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The self-employment of immigrants and natives in Sweden: To what extent is it the 'immigrant group' or the 'labour market context' that affects the self-employment of individuals i...

Ohlsson, Henrik; Broomé, Per; Bevelander, Pieter - 2010

Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the … register data on individuals for the year of 2007 for the entire Swedish population we have in this study a unique opportunity …

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Entrepreneurship and welfare

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - 2009

We examine returns to entrepreneurship using a standard measure of welfare, the percapita consumption expenditure. The …

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Why do individuals choose self-employment?

Dawson, Christopher; Henley, Andrew; Latreille, Paul L. - 2009

chosen self-employment. Two questions are addressed using large scale labour force survey data for the UK. The first concerns … entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …

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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States?

Bates, Timothy; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa - 2010

Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the US context. Based in part on the premise that financing requirements are an entry barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs...

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The Pleasures and Pains of Self-Employment: A Panel Data Analysis of Satisfaction with Life, Work, and Leisure

van der Zwan, Peter; Hessels, Jolanda; Rietveld, … - 2015

is an important element of life satisfaction. Fixed-effects regressions using German Socio-Economic Panel data (1984 …

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Born entrepreneur? Adolescents' personality characteristics and self-employment in adulthood

Viinikainen, Jutta; Heineck, Guido; Böckerman, Petri; … - 2016

childhood and adolescence, and examining their relationship to self-employment propensity in adulthood. Using data from the … Young Finns Study linked to the Finnish Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data and the Longitudinal Population Census of … also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

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Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood

Viinikainen, Jutta; Heineck, Guido; Böckerman, Petri; … - 2016

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The impact on earnings when entering self-employment: Evidence for Germany

Martin, Johannes - 2013

Using data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) earnings differentials between self-employed and wage …-employed workers in the German labor market are explored. Previous research based on US data reports lower incomes for entrepreneurs …

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