Essays about: "Determinants of Self-Employment"

Found 5 essays containing the words Determinants of Self-Employment.

  1. 1. Beyond the Surface: An Empirical Analysis of Multidimensional Child Poverty in Zambia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Jannis Köhler; [2023]
    Keywords : Multidimensional Child Poverty; Determinants; Rural-to-Urban Migration; Zambia; Sub-Saharan Africa; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Zambia has one of the highest levels of child poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, child poverty remains an understudied area and the determinants thereof are not well understood. READ MORE

  3. 2. Why People Are Moving Out of Agriculture: Micro-Evidence from Uganda and Ethiopia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Jasmin Bina; [2020]
    Keywords : Rural Non-Farm Economy; Ethiopia; Uganda; Push Factors; Pull Factors; Capacity Factors; Multinomial Logit Model; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper studies the determinants shaping the likelihood of being active in the non-farm sector in the rural economies of Sub-Saharan Africa. More specifically, the push, pull and capacity factors for a cross-sectional sample of rural Uganda and Ethiopia are explored. READ MORE

  4. 3. Propensity and motive behind the choice of Self-Employment: in rural and urban Sweden

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

    Author : Alen Kuralic; [2014]
    Keywords : Propensity; Motivation; Self-employment; Region;

    Abstract : In Sweden and many other countries of the European Union throughout the entire twentieth century the self-employment has been important and essential for sustainable growth and welfare. The dynamics of self-employment have had an variance between areas that are characterized and distinguished by different labour market conditions, entrepreneurial traditions and other structural factors. READ MORE

  5. 4. Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Why Immigrants choose to become self-employed? : A Qualitative study of South and Southeast Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Umea City

    University essay from Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet (USBE)

    Author : Utsav Sinnya; Nipesh Parajuli; [2012]
    Keywords : Entrepreneurship; Immigrant Entrepreneurs; Self-Employment; Determinants of Self-Employment; Cultural Identity; Family Business Groups;

    Abstract : After going through the literature on entrepreneurship we found that very little studies have been done whether culture and family business traditions influence the decisions of entrepreneurship. Most people from the South and Southeast Asia had cultural and family business backgrounds. READ MORE

  6. 5. Social Security of the Self-employed in Sweden. A normative analysis.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Samuel Engblom; [1999]
    Keywords : Arbetsrätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The overall objective of this study is to identify the normative contents of the legal rules shaping the status of self-employed workers in the Swedish social security system and how these contents change when underlying condition governing employment change. In order to achieve this objective it is first of all necessary to put social security and self-employment into their societal context. READ MORE