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IZA Discussion Paper No. 12933
Short- vs Long-Term Intergenerational Correlations of Employment and Self-Employment in Europe
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla
published as 'Intergenerational correlation of self-employment in Western Europe' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 108, 105741
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12841
Does Solo Self-Employment Serve as a 'Stepping Stone' to Employership?
Michael Leith Cowling, Mark Wooden
published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 68, 101942
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, 2020, 41, 70 - 95
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12624
Self-Employment and Migration
Samuele Giambra, David McKenzie
published in: World Development, 2022, 141, 105362
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
published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2020, 46 (1), 5 - 33
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12367
Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries
Markus Poschke
published online in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 12 September 2024, 103684
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
published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14, 100201
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11305
The Effect of Self-Employment on Health: Evidence from Longitudinal Social Security Data
Judite Goncalves, Pedro S. Martins
published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57(3), 1527-1543
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11018
The Returns to Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Matched Person-Firm Data
Mirjam C. van Praag, Arvid Raknerud
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11007
Poverty and Material Deprivation among the Self-Employed in Europe: An Exploration of a Relatively Uncharted Landscape
Jeroen Horemans, Ive Marx
published in: W. Conen and E. Reuter (eds.), Research Handbook on Self-Employment and Public Policy, 2024, 80–98
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10688
Self-Employment Differentials among Foreign-Born STEM and Non-STEM Workers
Zhengyu Cai, John V. Winters
published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2017, 32 (4), 371-384
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10280
Does Crime Deter South Africans from Self-Employment?
Katharina Grabrucker, Michael Grimm
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (2), 413-435.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10100
Deconstructing Informality: A Response to Vulnerability or an Optimal Choice?
Lina Song, Simon Appleton, Zhe Liang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10046
The Impact of Micro-Credit on Employment: Evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan
Azhar Kahn, Twyeafur Rahman, Robert E. Wright
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9822
Labour Supply after Inheritances and the Role of Expectations
Karina Doorley, Nico Pestel
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(4), 843-863
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9805
Born Entrepreneur? Adolescents' Personality Characteristics and Self-Employment in Adulthood
Jutta Viinikainen, Guido Heineck, Petri Böckerman, Mirka Hintsanen, Olli Raitakari, Jaakko Pehkonen
published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2017, 8, 9-12
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