Nobody's Business but My Own: Self Employment and Small Enterprise in Economic Development

By D. Gollin. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The Size Distribution of Farms and International Productivity Differences (2014, unknown): “(8) According to these conditions, households will consume a of food and will allocate the rest of their income proportionally between the two goods.”
Working from home across countries (2020, background): “In particular, the importance of self-employment varies very strongly with income per capita (Gollin, 2008).”
Evaluation of financial liberalization : a general equilibrium model with constrained occupation choice (2004, background): “30Note that in computing the growth rate we lose one observation, so the time index in the formula given in (13) runs from 1977 to 1996 for the growth rate statistic.”
Aggregate Costs of Gender Gaps in the Labor Market: A Quantitative Estimate (2016, unknown): “The two new elements in our model are rst the inclusion of a third occupation, namely self-employment, on top of employers and workers, as in Gollin (2008).4 Secondly, we introduce several exogenous frictions that only a ect women.”
What Determines Firm Size (2001, unknown): “…log GDP, log population, and ratio of export over GDP, we can use only two otherwise they would be perfectly collinear with log per capita GDP. 16See Gollin (1998) for an example of a study that focuses on economic development and firm formation. or human capital and size.17 The large positive…”
‘Entrepreneurs out of necessity’: a snapshot (2013, background): “Introducing self-employment in such a model does not change this (Gollin, 2007).”
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy (2013, background): “As these findings refer to the impact of the average entrepreneur, it perhaps suggests that focusing on the average entrepreneur may not be the best policy stance.”
How Do Hours Worked Vary with Income? Cross-Country Evidence and Implications (2018, unknown): “See Gollin et al. (2014) for a more detailed discussion of how agricultural output is treated in NIPA.”
The Firm Size Distribution Across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology (2018, methodology): “The self-employed in Gollin (2007) also have relatively high entrepreneurial ability and potential wages.”
Can Entrepreneurial Activity be Taught? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Central America (2011, background): “growth, finance, and industrial organization in which entrepreneurial skills are often taken as exogenous (e.g., Lucas, 1978; Gollin, 2008).”
Entrepreneurship is not a Binding Constraint on Growth and Development in the Poorest Countries (2011, background): “Indeed, small businesses owners, which ‘dominate the economic life of most developing nations’ (Gollin, 2008: 219) are in this literature not even considered entrepreneurs (Wennekers and Thurik, 1999).”
Role model influences on entrepreneurial intentions: A comparison between USA and Mexico (2006, background): “These results are consistent with important role of family networks and entrepreneurship in Mexico ( Gollin, 2000; Fairlie & Woodruff, 2000).”
Entrepreneurship and structural economic transformation (2008, background): “In this regard it adds to recent contributions such as by Lazonick (2008), Naudé (2008), Gries and Naudé (2008), Naudé et al. (2008), Naudé (2007), Dias and McDermott (2006) and Nelson and Pack (1999).”