Self-employment by gender in the EU: convergence and clusters

Faria, João Ricardo; Cuestas, Juan Carlos; Gil-Alana, Luis; Mourelle, Estefanía

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Self-employment by gender in the EU: convergence and clusters

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2183/35777

DOI: 10.1007/s10663-020-09494-2

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2021

Authors

Faria, João Ricardo

Cuestas, Juan Carlos

Gil-Alana, Luis

Mourelle, Estefanía

Bibliographic citation

Faria, J. R.; Cuestas, J. C.; Gil-Alana, L.; Mourelle, E. (2021). Self-employment by gender in the EU: Convergence and clusters, Empirica. Journal of European Economics, 48 (3), 717–741. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10663-020-09494-2.

Abstract

[Abstract]: This paper studies the convergence of self-employment by gender in the European Union, through tests for the order of integration and cluster analysis, in order to investigate the occurrence of two types of convergence: between genders and among European countries. The paper makes two contributions to the literature: 1) theoretically, it provides useful insights into the macroeconomic determinants of self-employment; 2) methodologically, it uses unit roots, fractional integration and cluster analysis to assess convergence. The empirical results point at mixed evidence of convergence, but with clear differences between the core and the periphery of Europe.