Determinants of self-employment /
This book develops a unifying model, in which most of the market and personal determinants are integrated and set into perspective. It is shown how the developed unifying model can be converted into the well-known logit/probit models with estimable parameters. In this way these latter models are giv...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg ; New York :
Physica-Verlag,
[1993]
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| Series: | Studies in contemporary economics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book develops a unifying model, in which most of the market and personal determinants are integrated and set into perspective. It is shown how the developed unifying model can be converted into the well-known logit/probit models with estimable parameters. In this way these latter models are given a sound theoretical basis. Moreover, an explicit link is accomplished between two fields of economics that so far have developed almost independently: the theoretical general-equilibrium models and the empirical logit/probit models. The parameters of the derived probit models are estimated using two different data sets. The results are particularly interesting because use is made of a data set containing childhood and family background information of the potentially self-employed individuals. Finally, it is shown how the models of self-employment described in this book can be used to analyze the transitions from a centrally planned economy to a market economy, which takeplace in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics. More specifically, political economic conditions are derived that may stimulate or inhibit such transitions. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 193 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-186) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783642503009 (electronic bk.) 3642503004 (electronic bk.) |