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181 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5508
Asymmetric Information in the Labor Market, Immigrants and Contract Menu
Saibal Kar, Bibhas Saha
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5446
Social-Family Network and Self-Employment: Evidence from Temporary Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Junfu Zhang, Zhong Zhao
published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2015, 4:4
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5384
Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec: A Microeconomic Approach
Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Dominique Pinard
published in: International Economic Journal, 2010, 24 (4), 463-479
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5373
Creative Unemployment
Knut Røed, Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm
revised version published as 'Job loss and Entrepreneurship' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (5), 727-744
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5212
Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small-Business Borrowers Achieved So Little Success in the United States?
Timothy Bates, Magnus Lofstrom, Lisa Servon
published in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2011, 25 (3), 255 - 266
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5071
Black-White Gap in Self-Employment in the U.S.: Do Cohort and Within Race Differences Exist?
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Willie Belton
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 41 (1), 25-39
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4976
The Self-Employment of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden
Henrik Ohlsson, Per Broomé, Pieter Bevelander
published in: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2012, 24 (5-6), 405-423
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4790
Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 311-331
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4676
A Note on Informality in the Labor Market
Melanie Khamis
published in: Journal of International Development, 2012, 24 (7), 894-908
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4628
Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees
Mirjam C. van Praag, Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Justin van der Sluis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4590
The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals
Barry R. Chiswick
published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 625-645
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4560
Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Magnus Lofstrom
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 25-44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4539
Does Self-Employment Increase the Economic Well-Being of Low-Skilled Workers?
Magnus Lofstrom
published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (4), 933-952
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4531
Does Formality Improve Micro-Firm Performance? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Brazilian SIMPLES Program
Pablo Fajnzylber, William F. Maloney, Gabriel V. Montes-Rojas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4250
Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns
Helge Berglann, Espen R. Moen, Knut Røed, Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 180-193
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4245
Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur?
Mirjam C. van Praag
published in: Handbook of Research on Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4221
How Does Entry Regulation Influence Entry into Self-Employment and Occupational Mobility?
Susanne Prantl, Alexandra Spitz-Oener
published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 769-802
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4178
Coming to America: Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Willie Belton
revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 538-542
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4093
The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Hysteresis, Business Cycles and Government Policy
Emilio Congregado, Antonio A. Golpe, Simon C. Parker
published in: Empirical Economics, 2012, 43, 1239 - 1261
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4052
Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data: An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets
Robert W. Fairlie, Alicia Robb
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