employment status prior to entering self-employment. As performance measures we use income from self-employment, number of …. For both men and women those who enter from unemployment or inactivity are less successful in terms of income and the …

-born men who were either unemployed, inactive or wage-earners in 1998. Economic outcome in 2002 is measured using income from …

Using longitudinal income-tax registers, we study how past labour market outcomes affect current labour market … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …

This study estimates the effect of job loss on health for near elderly employees based on longitudinal data from the … Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation between unemployment and health. To control … their previous employers' business. I find that the unemployed are in worse health than employees, and that health reasons …

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at … of the Georgian labor force relies on self-employment as the primary means to earn an income. For some, this is an avenue …

experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe’s most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany …. Other factors that possibly contributed to the rise in income inequality were changes in the tax system, changes in the …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …