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SELF–EMPLOYMENT AS MEANS OF REGIONS’ ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Ekonomia i Prawo, 2013 Self–employment is one amongst many other forms of efficient prevention of unemployment, raising the level of economic and social activity of society across regions.
Alina Szepelska
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Predictors of self-employment behavior among business graduates
Cogent Business & Management, 2021 Self-employment skills (also known as entrepreneurship) play a vital role in the economic development of a country, thus should be given enough attention while designing business education programs.
Umer Zaman +4 more
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Innovation and Self-Employment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 The chapter adds to the literature on innovation and employment by looking at the relationship between R&D investment and the rise of alternative work arrangements, particularly self-employment (SE). The chapter first looks at the emergence of nonstandard work, alternative work arrangements and self-employment.
Ciarli, Tommaso +2 more
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Small Business Economics, 2020 This paper explores differences in the likelihood of engaging in self-employment among migrants who moved for different reasons to the UK. The results suggest that, conditional on being in employment, those who initially migrated for asylum reasons are ...
Z. Kone +2 more
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Linking Self-Employment Before and After Migration: Migrant Selection and Human Capital
Sociological Science, 2019 In linking self-employment before and after migration, the often-cited home-country self-employment hypothesis states that immigrants who come from countries with large self-employment sectors are themselves more likely to have been self-employed and ...
Andrey Tibajev
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Switching to self-employment can be good for your health
Journal of Business Venturing, 2019 Relying on theoretical insights from the Job Demand-Control model, which links occupational characteristics to health, this paper provides the first causal evidence of the physical and mental health consequences of self-employment.
Milena Nikolova
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A fresh look at self-employment, stress and health: accounting for self-selection, time and gender
, 2020 Past research on self-employment and health yielded conflicting findings. Integrating predictions from the Stressor-Strain Outcome model, research on challenge stressors and allostatic load, we predict that physical and mental health are affected by self-
U. Stephan, Jun Li, Jingjing Qu
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Financial Literacy and Self‐Employment [PDF]
Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2018 In this paper, we study the relationship between financial literacy and self‐employment. We use established financial literacy questions to measure literacy levels. The analysis shows a highly significant and positive correlation between the index and self‐employment.
Ćumurović, Aida, Hyll, Walter
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Self-Employment and Subjective Well-Being [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and flexibility it brings. Using “subjective well-being” as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual’s experience of being self-employed, the chapter discusses evidence and explanations why self ...
Binder, Martin, Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin
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Self-employment and poverty in developing countries
IZA World of Labor, 2019 A key way for the world’s poor—nearly half of humanity—to escape poverty is to earn more for their labor. Most of the world’s poor people are self-employed, but because there are few opportunities in most developing countries for them to earn enough to ...
G. Fields
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