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Browsing by Subject "Self-employed"
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(University of Leicester, Department of Economics Working, 2001-11)We explore the significance of intra-couple and intra -household influences on three broad types of employment contracts: self-employment, performance related pay, and salaried employment. Individuals may pool income risk ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-03)We develop a model where workers may enter self-employment or search for jobs as employees and where there is heterogeneity across workers’ managerial ability. Workers with higher skills will manage larger firms while ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-01)The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap ...
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(Blackwell, 2006)We explore the possibility that a systematic relationship exists between employment within a particular type of contract and risk preference. We exploit a set of proxies for risk preference, whereby some of the proxies ...
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(University of Melbourne. Department of Economics, 2002-04)We consider three broad types of employment contract vis, self-employment, PRP, and fixed wage employment. We focus on the implied degree of income risk associated with each type of employment contract, arguing that such ...
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(Monash University, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, 2003)Modelling the incidence of self-employment has traditionally proved problematic. Whilst the individual supply side characteristics of the self-employed are well documented, the literature has largely neglected (or misspecified) ...
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