Income Insecurity, Job Insecurity and the Drift towards Self-employment in SSA
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Keywords
informality; Insecurity; Enterprises; income; job; employment; Self-employment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
- J29 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Other
- J40 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - General
- J47 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Coercive Labor Markets
- J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IUE-2014-11-22 (Informal and Underground Economics)
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