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181 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14909
Being Your Own Boss and Bossing Others: The Moderating Effect of Managing Others on Work Meaning and Autonomy for the Self-Employed and Employees
Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev, Christopher Boudreaux
published in: Small Business Economics. 2023, 60, 463–483
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14870
Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being - 20 Years of Interdependent Multidimensional Polarization in Germany
Joachim Merz, Bettina Scherg
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14655
Does Education Enhance Entrepreneurship?
Kunwon Ahn, John V. Winters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14535
Self-Employment in Rural China: Its Development, Characteristics, and Relation to Income
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Yudan Zhang
published in: China & World Economy, 2022, 30 (1), 136-165
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14491
Motherhood and the Allocation of Talent
Inés Berniell, Lucila Berniell, Dolores De la Mata, María Edo, Yarine Fawaz, Matilde P. Machado, Mariana Marchionni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14449
Women at Work in the United States since 1860: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers
Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14363
Tax Progressivity and Self-Employment Dynamics
Wiji Arulampalam, Andrea Papini
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105 (2), 377 - 391
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14216
Testing the Differential Impact of COVID-19 on Self-Employed Women and Men in the United Kingdom
Darja Reuschke, Andrew Henley, Elizabeth Daniel, Victoria Price
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13930
Immigration Policy and the Rise of Self-Employment among Mexican Immigrants
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Magnus Lofstrom, Chunbei Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13764
The Transition to Self-Employment and Perceived Skill-Mismatches: Panel Data Evidence from Eleven EU Countries
Judit Albiol Sanchez, Luis Diaz-Serrano, Mercedes Teruel
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2021, 153, 957-977
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13707
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Robert W. Fairlie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13443
Initial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Employment and Hours of Self-Employed Coupled and Single Workers by Gender and Parental Status
Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia
published as 'Impacts of COVID-19 on the Self-employed' in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 58, 741–768
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13415
The Agricultural Productivity Gap and Self-Employment Bias in the Labor Income Share
Saumik Paul, Liam Thomas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13311
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Robert W. Fairlie
published as 'The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: Evidence from the first three months after widespread social-distancing restrictions' in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2020, 29 (4), 727-740
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13187
The Perceived Well-Being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment
Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev, Olga Popova
published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57(4), 1819-1836
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13180
2D:4D and Self-Employment Using SOEP Data: A Replication Study
Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber Almenberg
revised version published in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2022, 46 (1), 21-43
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12943
Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Seema Jayachandran
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12933
Short- vs Long-Term Intergenerational Correlations of Employment and Self-Employment in Europe
José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla
published as 'Intergenerational correlation of self-employment in Western Europe' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 108, 105741
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12841
Does Solo Self-Employment Serve as a 'Stepping Stone' to Employership?
Michael Leith Cowling, Mark Wooden
published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 68, 101942
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12643
Career or Flexible Work Arrangements? Gender Differences in Self-Employment in a Young Market Economy
Dominik Buttler, Eva Sierminska
published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2020, 41, 70 - 95
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