Self-Employed Individuals, Time Use, and Earnings

Self-employed Individuals' Tax Retirement Act of 1962.

WHY EARN LESS? Gender-based Factors Affecting the Earnings of Self-Employed Women in Turkey

Article to be published by JAI Press in a volume titled Middle Eastern Women and Work and edited by the Middle East Economic Association The opinions expressed in this paper belong to the author and do not represent any institution. Women for the past three years. Her research and program work have been in the fields of international political economy, institutional economics, and gender and ec...

Do the Falling Earnings of Immigrants Apply to Self-Employed Immigrants?

Many studies have looked at the relative success of immigrant men in the (primarily paid) workforce. Despite the fact that they represent approximately one sixth of the immigrant workforce, self-employed immigrants are a relatively understudied group. This study uses the 1981, 1986, 1991, and 1996 Census files to assess the success of self-employed immigrant men (relative to selfemployed native...

The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Self-Compassion and Self-Criticism in Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder

Objective: Substance use disorder is one of the chronic and debilitating disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on self-compassion and self-criticism in individuals with opioid use disorder. Method: The present study was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. Thirty people with opioid use disord...

Self-Esteem and Earnings

Self-Esteem and Earnings Recent research in economics suggests a positive association between self-esteem and earnings. A major problem in this literature is that from simple cross-sectional wage regressions it is not possible to conclude that self-esteem has a causal impact on earnings. While classical measurement error leads to an attenuation bias, reverse causality and omitted variable are l...