Essays about: "Self-employment"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 69 essays containing the word Self-employment.

  1. 6. An Evaluation of an ICT Training Carried out as a Field Study in Tanzania : Empowering Women through ICT Skills

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Kajsa Castor; [2023]
    Keywords : ICT Training; ICT Skills; Interest in ICT; Confidence using ICT; Gender Equality; Employability; IKT-utbildning; IKT-intresse; Självförtroende att använda IKT; Jämställdhet; Anställningsbarhet.;

    Abstract : The United Nations has stated nine targets in the process to reach their sustainable development goal number five: to achieve gender equality in 2030. One of them is to enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology (ICT), to promote the empowerment of women. READ MORE

  3. 7. Reap What You Sow: How Effort-Reward Reciprocity Impacts the Job Satisfaction of Self-Employment

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Theodor Ekenstedt; [2022]
    Keywords : Job Satisfaction; Self-Employment; Effort-Reward Imbalance;

    Abstract : This study examines how effort-reward reciprocity at work impacts the job satisfaction of the self-employed. The self-employed regularly show higher job satisfaction than the wage-employed. Theories point toward effort-reward reciprocity, the balance between what one gives and what one receives at work, as a predictor of higher job satisfaction. READ MORE

  4. 8. The Impact of Reducing Capital Taxation on Savings and Entrepreneurship: A synthetic control study on Sweden

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Ellen Olsson; Bharat Bommana; [2022]
    Keywords : Synthetic control method; Net capital taxes; Sweden; Savings rate; Entrepreneurship;

    Abstract : Capital taxes have gained prominence in public discourse for their perceived redistributional capabilities. Understanding their effect on individual economic decision making is key to designing effective tax policy. Sweden provides a good case study of the implications of capital taxes, as it repealed most of its capital taxes between 2005 to 2007. READ MORE

  5. 9. Native-immigrant Earnings Differentials for Employees and Self-Employed

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU

    Author : Gülsah Altin; Mohamed Shafi Shoble; [2022]
    Keywords : Immigrants; Earnings Differentials; Self-Employment;

    Abstract : Abstract  This study investigates the native-immigrant earnings differential in self-employment and wage employment in Sweden. The main research question is whether the earnings differential between immigrants and natives differs when immigrants are self-employed. READ MORE

  6. 10. First- and second-generation immigrants in Sweden : A study on self-employment

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

    Author : Carina Tran; Sandra Morad; [2022]
    Keywords : Self-employment; first-generation immigrants; second-generation immigrants;

    Abstract : This paper analyses the probability that first- and second-generation immigrants in Sweden enter the self-employment market, and the propensity of being self-employed in certain industry levels. Furthermore, whether the motives and characteristics for choosing self-employment differ between generations by including control variables. READ MORE