کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5094405 1478493 2016 55 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Entrepreneurship versus joblessness: Explaining the rise in self-employment
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
کارآفرینی در مقابل بیکاری: توضیح افزایش دستمزد خود
کلمات کلیدی
خوداشتغالی، بازار کار آفریقا، مدل های نیمه پارامتریک، برتری نسبی، تقسیم بندی،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی
A large share of the workforce throughout the developing world is self-employed, and this proportion has increased in recent decades. Assessments of this development vary, with pull factors such as high returns to capital contrasted with push factors such as barriers to more desirable salaried jobs. Using a long panel dataset from Ghana, we empirically investigate the changing structure of earnings in self-employment relative to salaried work. Our analysis allows workers to sort into self-employment for different reasons, including expected earnings differentials and endogenous capital accumulation whilst highlighting constraints that workers may face. We estimate a correlated random coefficient model using IV-GMM, taking into account the endogeneity of sector choice and capital accumulation. We find that returns to productive characteristics in self-employment have increased significantly between 2004 and 2011 whilst self-employment has attracted increasingly skilled workers. This points against the negative view of self-employment as an occupation of last resort.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Development Economics - Volume 118, January 2016, Pages 245-265
نویسندگان
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