Abstract Analysis of the relationship between taxes and self-employment should account for interplay responses in wage employment. To this end, we estimate a two-state multispell duration model which accounts both observed unobserved heterogeneity using large longitudinal administrative data set Norway 1993 to 2011. Our findings confirm theoretical predictions are robust various changes definit...

Many Colombians are confronted with the ongoing conflict that influences their decision making in everyday life, including their behavior in labor markets. This study focuses on the impact of violent conflict on self-employment, enlarging the usual determinants with a set of conflict variables. In order to estimate the effect of conflict on self-employment, we employ fixed effects estimation. T...

V.1 A high rate of labour-absorbing growth ...................................................................... 2 V.2 Promoting the self-employment of the poor by converting them into productive entrepreneurs............................................................................................. 4 V.3 Increasing the productivity of the poor workers both in wage employment and in self-emp...