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International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 2016
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence that family factors have on an individual’s intention to be self-employed.Design/methodology/approach– The authors selected, from Swedish national registers, all full siblings born between 1945 and 1960 and their biological children, who were born before 1985. The authors created one family
Ayse Guveli +8 more
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Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence that family factors have on an individual’s intention to be self-employed.Design/methodology/approach– The authors selected, from Swedish national registers, all full siblings born between 1945 and 1960 and their biological children, who were born before 1985. The authors created one family
Ayse Guveli +8 more
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Self-employment within the Firm
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023We study the internal organization of manufacturing firms in Uganda. We measure what people do within firms and find limited specialization, far below what is feasible given the prevailing production process and average firm size of 5.7 workers. We build and estimate an occupational choice model in which firm size, productivity, and specialization ...
Bassi, Vittorio +5 more
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Veterinary Record, 2006
SIR, – Concern has been expressed to the Society of Practising Veterinary Surgeons (SPVS) that some practices occasionally still treat locums as self-employed and some locums are trying to claim to be self-employed.
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SIR, – Concern has been expressed to the Society of Practising Veterinary Surgeons (SPVS) that some practices occasionally still treat locums as self-employed and some locums are trying to claim to be self-employed.
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Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2005
In 1991—1992, the Research and Training Center on Rural Rehabilitation (RTC: Rural) evaluated 45 state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies' policies and procedures regarding self-employment for people with disabilities. Based on this analysis, researchers developed and broadly disseminated a model VR self-employment policy.
Nancy L. Arnold, Catherine Ipsen
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In 1991—1992, the Research and Training Center on Rural Rehabilitation (RTC: Rural) evaluated 45 state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies' policies and procedures regarding self-employment for people with disabilities. Based on this analysis, researchers developed and broadly disseminated a model VR self-employment policy.
Nancy L. Arnold, Catherine Ipsen
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Self-employment and Motherhood: Labor Market Outcomes of Self-employment in Early Childhood Years
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022Self-employment is a career choice that may offer the flexibility to take care of children whilst remaining active on the labor market, and can therefore be seen by mothers as an alternative to wage employment during early childhood years. Using data from the German Socio-Economic household panel (SOEP) between 1995 and 2018, we investigate the success
Theunissen, Pomme +2 more
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2019
Dependent self-employment is widely perceived as a rapidly growing form of precarious work conducted by marginalised lower-skilled workers subcontracted by large corporations. Unpacking a comprehensive survey of 35 European countries, Colin C. Williams and Ioana Alexandra Horodnic map the lived realities of the distribution and characteristics of ...
Colin Williams, Ioana Horodnic
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Dependent self-employment is widely perceived as a rapidly growing form of precarious work conducted by marginalised lower-skilled workers subcontracted by large corporations. Unpacking a comprehensive survey of 35 European countries, Colin C. Williams and Ioana Alexandra Horodnic map the lived realities of the distribution and characteristics of ...
Colin Williams, Ioana Horodnic
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Electronic Self-employment in Russia
Voprosy Ekonomiki, 2011The paper is devoted to electronic self-employment as a new phenomenon of the labor market in the information society. The authors analyze the growing sector of self-employed professionals (freelancers) working remotely via Internet. Extensive quantitative data from online standardized surveys reveal the main demographic, social and professional ...
A. Shevchuk, D. Strebkov
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Self-employment and mental health
Review of Economics of the Household, 2013This paper analyzes the role of mental health in self-employment decisions. We find evidence of a relationship between psychological distress and self-employment for men that depends on type of self-employment and severity of psychological distress. Specifically, there is suggestive evidence of a causal link from moderate psychological distress to self-
Vicki L. Bogan +2 more
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Self-Employment and Bogus Self-Employment in the European Construction Industry
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010There have always been self-employed workers in the construction industry. Craftsmen in particular are often self-employed workers. Approximately 14% of construction workers are self-employed today, according to “Employment in Europe 2005”. The level of self-employed workers is even higher in some countries, such as Greece (40%), Poland (29%), Cyprus ...
Edoardo Ales, Michele Faioli
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Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2017
Supriya RoyChowdhury, B. P. Vani
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Supriya RoyChowdhury, B. P. Vani
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