Conceptual Models 22 a. Proprietorship formations and returns to proprietorships 23 Individual-level factors 24 County-level factors 25 b. Impact of proprietorship formations 29 Extended Abstract This study expands on previous research by including a wider set of local economic and community factors affecting non-farm entrepreneurship or self-employment than have previously been considered. The...

In this paper I build an equilibrium search model of the urban Tanzanian labour market that explains the choice between wage and self-employment and the variation in earnings across and within these sectors. Self-employment is very common in urban Tanzania and survey data show both that there are large overlaps in the distribution of earnings in private wage employment and self-employment and t...

What role does self-employment play in the retirement process? Older Americans are staying in the labor force longer than prior trends would have predicted and many change jobs later in life. These job transitions are often within the same occupation or across occupations within wageand-salary employment. The transition can also be out of wage-and-salary work and into self employment. Indeed, n...

► We use a theoretical model of self-employment and test its implications empirically. ► Our contribution is to allow for an interaction with educational attainment. ► Employment protection reduces self-employment rather for highly educated workers. ► Inclusion of interaction necessary to assess the effect of employment protection. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o We analyse how educationa...

Studies from a multitude of countries suggest that women become self-employed after having children to facilitate the work-family balance. In Sweden, generous parental leave and heavily subsided childcare is available, facilitating for parents to hold salaried jobs. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether having children increases the likelihood of individuals being self-employed. One m...

This paper examines the determinants of success in self-employment, with a focus on the effects of the time spent caring for children. Many public policies are designed to encourage self-employment, especially among women. In addition, it has been argued that one of the reasons individuals, and women in particular, choose self-employment over wage and salary sector employment is in order to spe...

The Earned Income Tax Credit subsidizes earnings from both the wage sector and the self-employment sector. This paper uses tax return data to investigate how the EITC affects the reporting of self-employment income to the IRS. A difference-in-difference strategy is used, considering three expansions in the EITC and comparing changes across filers with and without children. The expansions are pr...

There is a widespread policy view that lack of job opportunities at home key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions the need to spend more on creating these so as reduce migration. Self-employment in poor countries, and faced with existing jobs, providing people start businesses option. But empirical evidence support this idea slight, economic theory offers several reasons why self-em...

Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen: Proclivity and Performance Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding by classifying success stories in self-employment and business careers, and by investigating differences between native women (both from West and Ea...