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184 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4178
Coming to America: Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Willie Belton
revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 538-542
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4093
The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Hysteresis, Business Cycles and Government Policy
Emilio Congregado, Antonio A. Golpe, Simon C. Parker
published in: Empirical Economics, 2012, 43, 1239 - 1261
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4052
Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data: An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets
Robert W. Fairlie, Alicia Robb
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3997
Latina Entrepreneurship
Magnus Lofstrom, Timothy Bates
published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 33 (4), 427-439
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3974
Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?
Christopher Dawson, Andrew Henley, Paul L. Latreille
published as 'Individual Motives for Choosing Self-employment in the UK: Does Region Matter?' in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(5), 804-822
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3969
Switching Costs and Occupational Transition into Self-Employment
Andrew Henley
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3952
Self-Employment and the Role of Health Insurance
Gulcin Gumus, Tracy L. Regan
revised version published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2015, 30 (3), 357-374
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3940
Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium
Andrew E. Clark
published in: Ed Diener, John Helliwell, and Danny Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3900
Self-Employment Dynamics, State Dependence and Cross-Mobility Patterns
Marco Caliendo, Arne Uhlendorff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3761
The Role of Information and Institutions in Understanding the Black-White Gap in Self-Employment
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Willie Belton
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3711
Nepotism, Incentives and the Academic Success of College Students
Deniz Gevrek, Z. Eylem Gevrek
published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 581-591
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3644
Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed
Amelie F. Constant
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 145-162
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3581
A Gender Perspective on Self-Employment Entry and Performance as Self-Employed
Pernilla Andersson Joona, Eskil Wadensjö
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3519
Informality and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
Norbert M. Fiess, Marco Fugazza, William F. Maloney
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3511
Who Are the Microenterprise Owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
published in: Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar (eds.) International Differences in Entrepreneurship, NBER, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3476
Never the Same After the First Time: The Satisfaction of the Second-Generation Self-Employed
Andrew E. Clark, Nathalie Colombier, David Masclet
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29 (7), 591-609
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3360
Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?
Marco Caliendo
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30(7), 625-647
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3250
The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders: New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States
Randall K. Q. Akee, David A. Jaeger, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
published in: Economics Bulletin, 2013, 33(1), 126-137
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3220
Start-Ups by the Unemployed: Characteristics, Survival and Direct Employment Effects
Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2010, 35(1), 71-92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3156
African Americans' Pursuit of Self-Employment
Magnus Lofstrom, Timothy Bates
published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (1), 73-86
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