The Self-Employment Option in Rigid Labor Markets: An Empirical Investigation
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DOI: 10.17016/IFDP.2019.1264
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Keywords
Self-employment; Business cycles; Unemployment; Employment protection;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LMA-2019-11-25 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-MAC-2019-11-25 (Macroeconomics)
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