The reemergence of self-employment : a comparative study of self-employment dynamics and social inequality /
This book presents results of a cross-national research project on self-employment in eleven advanced economies and demonstrates how and why the practice is reemerging in modern societies. While traditional forms of self-employment, such as skilled crafts work and shop keeping, are in decline, they...
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2004
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Table of Contents:
- Self-employment dynamics in advanced economies / Walter Müller and Richard Arum
- Trends in self-employment in Germany : different types, different developments? / Henning Lohmann and Silvia Luber
- Entries and exits from self-employment in France over the last twenty years / Thomas Amossé and Dominique Goux
- Dutch self-employment between 1980 and 1997 / Boris F. Blumberg and Paul M. de Graaf
- Self-employment in the United Kingdom during the 1980s and 1990s / Nigel Meager and Peter Bates
- Entrepreneurs and laborers : two sides of self-employment activity in the United States / Richard Arum
- Self-employment in Australia, 1980-1999 / M.D.R. Evans and Joanna Sikora
- Winners or losers? Entry and exit into self-employment in Hungary : 1980s and 1990s / Péter Róbert and Erzsébet Bukodi
- Three forms of emergent self-employment in post-Soviet Russia : entry and exit patterns by gender / Theodore P. Gerber
- Self-employment in Italy : scaling the class barriers / Paolo Barbieri and Ivano Bison
- Entry into and exit from self-employment in Japan / Hiroshi Ishida
- On one's own : self-employment activity in Taiwan / Wei-hsin Yu and Kuo-Hsien Su
- The reemergence of self-employment : comparative findings and empirical propositions / Richard Arum and Walter Müller.
