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Date Published: 31/07/2020
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.38203/jiem.020.2.0009
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Vol. 20 No. 2 (2020)
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Le, T. T. H., Bui, T. L., & Nguyen, H. M. (2021). The impact of financial openness on the earnings of self-employed workers - an empirical evidence from a panel dataset. Journal of International Economics and Management, 20(2), 34-48. https://doi.org/10.38203/jiem.020.2.0009
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The impact of financial openness on the earnings of self-employed workers - an empirical evidence from a panel dataset

Le Thi Thu Huong1,, Bui Thi Ly2, Nguyen Huyen Minh2
1 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
2 Foreign Trade University, Hanoi, Vietnam

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This paper contributes to the literature on the effect of financial openness by investigating the factors and determinants which drive the income share to self-employed labor during financial liberalization. The question of the precise impact of liberalization on the share of the self-employed has received less attention in the literature. The authors use a de jure or a rule-based indicator as a measure of capital account openness. The empirical work is applied for a panel dataset of 30 countries during the period of 1970 - 2015. The results from all specifications support the hypothesis that financial integration leads to an increase in the unemployment rate as well as in the income share of self-employed. Nevertheless, the positive relation between financial openness and self-employed income is not evident when we focus solely on developed countries.

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Financial openness, Self-employed workers, Labor share of income

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