This study uses a pooled sample of household survey data collected by India’s National Sample Survey Organization between 1983 and 2000 to examine the impact of access to credit on self-employment among men and women in rural labor households. Results indicate that access to credit encourages women’s self-employment as own-account workers and employers, while it discourages men’s self-employmen...

This paper presents the first quantitative analysis of gender disparities in selfemployment in urban China. It documents the extent of gender income inequality in selfemployment. By disaggregating self-employment into three occupational classes, it shows the gender segregation within self-employment—women were concentrated in the financially least rewarding segment—and identifies it as a main s...

This article uses individual-level data collected in the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics Australia (HILDA) survey 2016 to econometrically explore direction of causation between financial literacy self-employment. The empirical approach is based on applying instrumental variables (IV) analysis a three-outcome labour supply model (i.e. self-employment, employee employment non-employment) th...

Previous research on educational mismatch concentrates on estimating its labor market consequences but with a focus on wage and salary workers. This paper examines the far less studied influence of mismatch on the self-employed. Using a sample of workers in science and engineering fields, results show larger earnings penalties for mismatch among the self-employed but no diminution in job satisf...