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Gain or loss? The well-being of women in self-employment [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Using data from the Chinese Household Income Project survey, we find that self-employed women have lower levels of well-being compared with their male counterparts.
Lin Xiu, Yufei Ren
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Self-employment in OECD countries [PDF]

Labour Economics, 2000
The paper examines the role and influence of self-employment across the OECD. The overall trend in self-employment, at the economy level in the years since 1966, has been down in most countries. The main exceptions to this are Portugal, New Zealand and the United Kingdom where the trend has been upward.
David Blanchflower
exaly   +4 more sources

Self-employment and health inequality of migrant workers [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Self-employment is one of the most common forms of employment for migrant workers in China. However, migrant workers’ lifestyle and behavior, as well as health disparities among them, would be impacted by self-employment. This research aims to
Deshui Zhou, Xin Wen
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Successful self-employment in microenterprise for persons with disabilities in a rural setting [PDF]

African Journal of Disability
Background: Persons with disabilities are involved in self-employment (vocational rehabilitation) in microenterprises despite key role players not making valuable contributions or using self-employment as a placement option.
Luther L. Monareng, Mogammad S. Soeker, Deshini Naidoo   +2 more
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Self-employment and disability

Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2023
In many countries, self-employment has become a common strategy for achieving inclusion in the labour market. Studies show that the occurrence of self-employment depends not only on individual motives, but also on existing policies and support.
Maria Norstedt, Per Germundsson
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Efficient privacy-preserving variable-length substring match for genome sequence

Algorithms for Molecular Biology, 2022
The development of a privacy-preserving technology is important for accelerating genome data sharing. This study proposes an algorithm that securely searches a variable-length substring match between a query and a database sequence. Our concept hinges on
Yoshiki Nakagawa, Satsuya Ohata, Kana Shimizu   +2 more
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Self-Employment and Migration [PDF]

World Development, 2019
There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of existing jobs, providing more opportunities for people to ...
Giambra, Samuele, McKenzie, David
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Self-employment in Hungarian law

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Iuridica, 2023
Self-employment has traditionally been regulated by the Civil Code, as a distinctive form of work apart from employment. This chapter strives to evaluate the labour law framework and labour market experience of self-employment. First, the Hungarian legal
Gyulavári Tamás
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Managing effective labor market entry: proactive coping and self-employment intention among Polish small business owners [PDF]

Central European Management Journal, 2023
Purpose – Self-employment is considered one of the responses to precarious employment, particularly among those who lost jobs during an economic crisis.
Katarzyna Ślebarska, Aneta Stremska, Grzegorz Kowalski   +2 more
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Credit and self-employment [PDF]

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2009
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Kartik B. Athreya, Ahmet Akyol
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