Where your self-employed earnings could influence your mortgage lender is if you were to save them to build up a cash deposit to put down on a property.
In State Department cables obtained by Wikileaks and released to Reuters through a third party, U.S. diplomats in 2009 reported the American casino companies' "unease about the earnings power, influence on government, and organized crime connections of Macau's junket operators.
The estimated effect of CFS on worker productivity and employment is based on a "human capital" framework, in which an individual's earnings are influenced by their education and experience.
After controlling for a number of factors known to influence earnings, analysis suggests immigrants should be earning even more (Denny et al. 1997; Dustmann and Fabbri 2005; Bell 1997).
Economists at the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, analysed wages in manufacturing and non-manufacturing jobs between 2008 and 2010, controlling for factors that influence earnings, such as sex and education.
The production demonstrates the negative side of generous state subsidies: the same actors remain on the payroll for 30 years or more; administrative and technical staff members outnumber artistic personnel by three to one; and box-office earnings have little influence on programming.
Nonetheless, ability and some personality traits do somehow influence earnings within the formal sector, albeit more in Lebanon than in Syria.
Finally, omitted-variable bias may arise because unobserved variables like non-cognitive skills, personality traits, family background, or health status could directly influence earnings or employment prospects and may also be related to cognitive skills.
Moreover, unobserved variables like family networks, health, or non-cognitive skills could directly influence earnings; if also related to skills, these could lead to omitted variable bias in the analysis of skills.
Although, as noted above, we suspect there may be bias in estimates for the first two quarters after beginning the program, even moderate forgone earnings would not influence our conclusions.
