@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp572, author={Co, Catherine Y. and Gang, Ira N. and Yun, Myeong-Su}, title={Self-Employment and Wage Earning: Hungary During Transition}, year={2002}, month={Sep}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={572}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp572}, abstract={We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or nonworking for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wageearning jobs for workers only. Previous studies use switching regression to examine the returns to individual characteristics taking into account only selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs. We find that the estimated returns to individual characteristics when accounting for both forms of selection differ from estimates correcting for only selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs. We also find that the earnings determinants of the two sectors are not significantly different from each other. }, keywords={wage-earning jobs;self-employment;switching;self-selection;economies intransition}, }