scholarly journals Competitiveness of Entrepreneurs and Salaried Workers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loukas Balafoutas ◽  
Mongoljin Batsaikhan ◽  
Matthias Sutter
Keyword(s):  
Salaried Workers

scholarly journals Are the Self-Employed Mentally Healthier Than Salaried Workers? Evidence From Korea, Mexico, and the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 40-41
Author(s):  
Hankyung Jun
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fixed Effects Model ◽  
Reverse Causality ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Salaried Workers ◽  
The U.S

Abstract Self-employed workers are often reported to have better health than salaried workers. Whether this is because self-employment has health benefits or healthier workers are self-employed is not clear. Self-employed workers may have higher job satisfaction due to higher levels of self-efficacy and autonomy, but may also experience higher job stress, uncertainty, and lack of health insurance leading to mental health problems. Self-employed workers in the U.S. may have different characteristics than those in Mexico and Korea given different working and living environments as well as different institutional arrangements. This study will examine the association between self-employment and mental and cognitive health for older adults in the U.S., Mexico, and South Korea. It uses harmonized panel data from the Health and Retirement Study, the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging, and the Mexican Health and Aging Study. We compare the health and selection effect of self-employment using a pooled logistic model, fixed-effects model, and a bivariate probit model. In addition to comparing self-employed and salaried workers, we analyze differences between self-employed with and without employees. By using rich data and various models, we address reverse causality and estimate the relationship between self-employment and health. We show that the positive health effects of self-employed workers in the U.S. disappear once controlled for unobserved heterogeneity, indicating the possibility of healthier workers selecting into self-employment. Interestingly, for Korea and Mexico, healthier individuals seem to select into wage work which reflects the difference in working conditions across countries. Further analysis will show effects by business size.

Low-Wage Workers and the Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lipsitz ◽  
Evan Starr
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
Job Mobility ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Salaried Workers ◽  
Wage Effects ◽  
Wage Distributions ◽  
Noncompete Agreements ◽  
Hourly Workers ◽  
The Impact

We exploit the 2008 Oregon ban on noncompete agreements (NCAs) for hourly-paid workers to provide the first evidence on the impact of NCAs on low-wage workers. We find that banning NCAs for hourly workers increased hourly wages by 2%–3% on average. Since only a subset of workers sign NCAs, scaling this estimate by the prevalence of NCA use in the hourly-paid population suggests that the effect on employees actually bound by NCAs may be as great as 14%–21%, though the true effect is likely lower due to labor market spillovers onto those not bound by NCAs. Whereas the positive wage effects are found across the age, education, and wage distributions, they are stronger for female workers and in occupations where NCAs are more common. The Oregon low-wage NCA ban also improved average occupational status in Oregon, raised job-to-job mobility, and increased the proportion of salaried workers without affecting hours worked. This paper was accepted by Lamar Pierce, organizations.

Does Salaried Status Affect Human Capital Accumulation?

ILR Review ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheldon E. Haber ◽  
Robert S. Goldfarb
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Hourly Wage ◽  
Program Participation ◽  
Salaried Workers ◽  
Hourly Workers ◽  
Using Data

Human capital studies do not usually consider whether an individual is paid an hourly wage or a salary. The authors of this paper develop a conceptual framework that explains why some workers are paid salaries and predicts that salaried workers will invest more in human capital than will hourly workers. In particular, this prediction hinges on the differing effort incentives facing hourly and salaried workers, and their employers, in jobs that are paced versus unpaced. Empirical evidence supporting this prediction and other hypotheses implied by the proposed framework is presented using data on individuals covering a 16-month period in 1984–85 from the Bureau of Census Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a longitudinal survey.

The impact of formal savings on salaried workers’ spending and borrowing in Eastern Ghana

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tricia Koroknay-Palicz ◽  
Markus Goldstein ◽  
Leora Klapper ◽  
Niklas Buehren ◽  
Simone Schaner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Salaried Workers ◽  
The Impact

Haiti Pension System: Recommendations to Improve the Regulation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar A. Robles
Keyword(s):  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Pension System ◽  
Pension Funds ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Salaried Workers ◽  
Key Policy

This tenth document of the PLAC Network Technical Assistance Document Series, entitled “Haiti pension system - Recommendations to improve the regulation”, provides general recommendations for the regulatory framework of the pension system in Haiti and tries to identify broad key policy options to improve the performance of the pension system. The policies are directed to strengthen and harmonize the rules of governance for the Office Nationale d'Assurance-Vieillesse (ONA), which covers private salaried workers, and the Plan de Retraite de l'Administration Publique (PRAP), to increase their capacity to manage risks, facilitate supervision of pension funds, improve sustainability, adequacy and equity, and establish guidelines for investments policies.

scholarly journals Servitude and Work at the Dawn of the Early Modern Era The Devaluation of Salaried Workers and the “Undeserving Poor”

2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (01) ◽  
pp. 77-85
Author(s):  
Giacomo Todeschini
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Economic Rationality ◽  
Salaried Workers ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Undeserving Poor

Abstract Thomas Piketty’s analysis of the way that neoliberal economists use false meritocracy to justify growing economic inequality invites historians to reconsider the representation of workers in the economic thought and administrative politics of preindustrial Western Europe. This renewed focus on those termed mercenarii in theological, economic, and legal texts, namely salaried workers, shows that since the thirteenth century the literate elites of Christian Europe have interpreted manual labor as the sign of a competence that was useful but also socially and politically devalorizing. The ancient Roman conception of wages as auctoramentum servitutis, or evidence of servitude, reemerges at the end of Middle Ages in the guise of a complex theological, legal, and governmental discourse about the intellectual incompetence and necessary political marginality of salaried workers as manual laborers. At the dawn of the early modern era, the representation of salaried labor as a social condition corresponding to a state of servitude and lack of intellect characterizes both literary works and the economic rationality embodied by the first “scientific” economists.

Job insecurity, economic hardship, and sleep problems in a national sample of salaried workers in Spain

Sleep Health ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Salas-Nicás ◽  
Grace Sembajwe ◽  
Albert Navarro ◽  
Salvador Moncada ◽  
Clara Llorens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Salaried Workers
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