Self-Employment and Wage Earning: Hungary During Transition

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We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or nonworking for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wageearning jobs for workers only. Previous studies use switching regression to examine the returns to individual characteristics taking into account only selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs. We find that the estimated returns to individual characteristics when accounting for both forms of selection differ from estimates correcting for only selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs. We also find that the earnings determinants of the two sectors are not significantly different from one another.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 572

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets; Industry Studies; Population ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Truncated and Censored Models; Switching Regression Models
• Thema: self-selection ; switching ; self-employment ; wage-earning jobs ; economies in transition ; Selbständige ; Einkommen ; Lohn ; Übergangswirtschaft ; Schätzung ; Ungarn ; self selection ; Selbstselektion

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Co, Catherine Y. ; Gang, Ira N. ; Yun, Myeong-Su
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2002

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21356
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ