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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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An Empirical Study of the Transition from Paid Work to Self-Employment

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 2005
We explore the transition from paid work to self-employment using three explanatory variables: paid income, predicted income, and income for ability. We find no linear relationship between the three variables and the self-employment transition.
S. Ramakrishna Velamuri, S. Venkataraman
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Self-Employment Dynamics amid High Unemployment: An Empirical Analysis of Transitional Labour Market in India [PDF]

Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal
There is a high unemployment rate in India, and self-employment is considered a way to create more jobs and stimulate the economy. However, personal and family characteristics and occupational structure play a role in determining who is likely to pursue ...
Sonu Madan, Surender Mor
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Informal self-employment in Kazakhstan [PDF]

IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2013
We use data from the Kazakhstan Labor Force Survey (KLFS) for the period 2006-2011 to examine causal factors that determine informal self-employment. In addition, the paper expands the analysis to consider gender differences in informality and examines the response of informality propensities to the recent global crisis.
Mussurov, Altay, Arabsheibani, G. Reza
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Formation and development trends of self-employment in the Republic of Kazakhstan: applied research [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2020
A lot of the business learning a self-employed must do is actually unlearning many old husbands’ tales that are so often told to unsuspecting indies. Take, for instance, all the dire warnings and urgings to feel sorry for yourself because you are being ...
Ilyashova Guliya, Turarov Dauren, Murabildaeva Riza, Batyr Aiman   +3 more
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Self-Employment in the News Industry

, 2023
This chapter highlights the position of freelance or self-employed journalists in the news sector from the pessimistic observation that news organizations tend to push journalists into a freelance status to cope with decreasing revenues and are inspired by neoliberal thoughts.
Van Leuven, Sarah, Vandenberghe, Hanne
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Toward optimal second language acquisition and proficiency: Addressing limited exposure and educational inequality in EFL contexts through home-based approaches and interdisciplinary insights

Ampersand
In English as a Foreign Language (EFL) settings, second language acquisition (SLA) is often challenging due to limited English exposure and structural constraints within school systems.
Sun Youn Lee, Joo Bong Kim
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Credit and self-employment

, 2013
Around the globe, small-scale entrepreneurship provides an important vehicle for income generation for women and men. Some people start microenterprises because they need more flexibility in their terms of employment, they have innovative ideas that warrant starting a new business, or they seek upward mobility in the labor market.
Menon, Nidhiya, Rodgers, Yana
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Consumer Discrimination and Self-Employment [PDF]

Journal of Political Economy, 1989
Self-employment rates and incomes differ significantly by race. The authors show that these differentials arise in markets with consumer discrimination and incomplete information about the price of the good and the race of the seller. Equilibrium income distributions have two properties: mean black incomes are lower than mean white incomes, and the ...
George J. Borjas, Stephen G. Bronars
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STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN SELF-EMPLOYMENT USING DECOMPOSITION METHODOLOGY [PDF]

فصلنامه پژوهش‌های اقتصادی ایران, 2003
In this paper, the structural changes of self-employment are studied in economic sectors of Iran by using decomposition methodology during 1956- 96.The self-employment changes in economic sectors in ten-year period can be decomposed into several ...
Hadi Qavami
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