Effects of individual and household characteristics on informal entrepreneurship among youths in Senegal
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Keywords
Informal entrepreneurship; Discrete regression; Youth; Education; Wealth;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E26 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Informal Economy; Underground Economy
- C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
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