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Self-employment and Motherhood: Labor Market Outcomes of Self-employment in Early Childhood Years

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022
Self-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, Künn, Annemarie, Rybczynski, Kate   +2 more
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From Hybrid Entrepreneurs to Entrepreneurial Billionaires: Observations on the Socioeconomic Heterogeneity of Self-employment

American Behavioral Scientist, 2018
Conventional discourses about self-employment are unsatisfactory since there is no clear acknowledgment of its heterogeneity. Interpretations tend to refer to an average type that does not exist in practice, and there are problems of coherence ...
Dieter Bögenhold
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Dependent Self-Employment

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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Electronic Self-employment in Russia

Voprosy Ekonomiki, 2011
The 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, 2013
This 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, Angela R. Fertig, David R. Just   +2 more
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Self-Employment, Personal Values, and Varieties of Happiness–Unhappiness

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 2017
This study compares personal values and forms of happiness between self-employed workers and those employed in an organization. Values are examined through Schwartz’s (1999) established model, and happiness is measured in terms of personal flourishing ...
P. Warr
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Self-Employment and Bogus Self-Employment in the European Construction Industry

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
There 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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Self-employment

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2017
Supriya RoyChowdhury, B. P. Vani
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Does Entrepreneurship Pay? An Empirical Analysis of the Returns to Self‐Employment

Journal of Political Economy, 2000
B. Hamilton
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Self-employment

2023
Wapshott, R., Mallett, O.
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