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152 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13764
The Transition to Self-Employment and Perceived Skill-Mismatches: Panel Data Evidence from Eleven EU Countries
Judit Albiol Sanchez, Luis Diaz-Serrano, Mercedes Teruel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13707
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Robert W. Fairlie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13443
Initial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Employment and Hours of Self-Employed Coupled and Single Workers by Gender and Parental Status
Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13415
The Agricultural Productivity Gap and Self-Employment Bias in the Labor Income Share
Saumik Paul, Liam Thomas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13311
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Robert W. Fairlie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13187
The Perceived Well-Being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment
Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev, Olga Popova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13180
2D:4D and Self-Employment Using SOEP Data: A Replication Study
Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber Almenberg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12943
Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Seema Jayachandran
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12933
Short- vs Long-Term Intergenerational Correlations of Employment and Self-Employment in Europe
J. Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12841
Does Solo Self-Employment Serve as a 'Stepping Stone' to Employership?
Michael Leith Cowling, Mark Wooden
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12643
Career or Flexible Work Arrangements? Gender Differences in Self-Employment in a Young Market Economy
Dominik Buttler, Eva Sierminska
published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, published 02 March 2020 (https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10834-020-09668-x)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12624
Self-Employment and Migration
Samuele Giambra, David McKenzie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12572
Learning Management through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design
Girum Abebe, Marcel Fafchamps, Michael Koelle, Simon Quinn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12555
September 11 and the Rise of Necessity Self-Employment among Mexican Immigrants
Chunbei Wang, Magnus Lofstrom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12367
Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries
Markus Poschke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12189
Transitioning from Solo Self-Employed to Microbusiness Employer: Local Economic Environment or Owner Characteristics?
Andrew Henley
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12147
Motherhood, Migration, and Self-Employment of College Graduates
Zhengyu Cai, Heather M. Stephens, John V. Winters
published in: Small Business Economics, 2019, 53 (3), 611-629
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11857
Entry Barriers and the Labor Market Outcomes of Incumbent Workers: Evidence from a Deregulation Reform in the German Crafts Sector
Philipp Lergetporer, Jens Ruhose, Lisa Simon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11663
The Role of Self-Employment in Ireland's Older Workforce
Anne Nolan, Alan Barrett
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11305
The Effect of Self-Employment on Health: Evidence from Longitudinal Social Security Data
Judite Goncalves, Pedro S. Martins
forthcoming in: Small Business Economics, 2020
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