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    • Co-movement and causality between self-employment, unemployment and business cycle in the EU-12 

      Carmona, Mónica; Congregado, Emilio; Golpe, Antonio A. (Senate HallDublin, 2010)
      The current crisis has generated a renewed interest in the business cycle. In particular, the search of alternative solutions to the traditional ones has lead to a re-examination of the role of certain key economic variables ...
    • From own-account worker to job creator 

      Congregado, Emilio; Millán, José María; Román, Concepción (Senate HallDublin, 2010)
      This study aims to increase our understanding of the contribution of the self-employed to the job creation process by investigating the individual decision of hiring employees. Our framework considers the individual decision ...
    • Heterogeneity among Self-Employed Digital Platform Workers. Evidence from Europe 

      Congregado, Emilio; de Andrés, María Isabel; Nolan, Eimear; Román, Concepción (Senate Hall, 2022)
      This study examines the prevalence, types of activities, and characteristics of self-employment into digital platform work. Among others, we wonder if self-employment is the natural employment status to perform this type ...