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Exploring the Role of Privilege in Migrant Women’s Self-Employment

open access: yesEntrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, 2020
This paper launches a discussion for using privilege to understand migrant self-employment. Migrants are a heterogeneous and complex group, yet migrant self-employment studies have not yet considered how privilege provides opportunities or gains.
N. Webster, Karen Haandrikman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Formation and development trends of self-employment in the Republic of Kazakhstan: applied research [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
A lot of the business learning a self-employed must do is actually unlearning many old husbands’ tales that are so often told to unsuspecting indies. Take, for instance, all the dire warnings and urgings to feel sorry for yourself because you are being ...
Ilyashova Guliya   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Self-employment and poverty in developing countries

open access: yesIZA World of Labor, 2019
A key way for the world’s poor—nearly half of humanity—to escape poverty is to earn more for their labor. Most of the world’s poor people are self-employed, but because there are few opportunities in most developing countries for them to earn enough to ...
G. Fields
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment Across Countries

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2019
Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the unemployment-wage ...
Markus Poschke
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Toward optimal second language acquisition and proficiency: Addressing limited exposure and educational inequality in EFL contexts through home-based approaches and interdisciplinary insights

open access: yesAmpersand
In English as a Foreign Language (EFL) settings, second language acquisition (SLA) is often challenging due to limited English exposure and structural constraints within school systems.
Sun Youn Lee, Joo Bong Kim
doaj   +1 more source

STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN SELF-EMPLOYMENT USING DECOMPOSITION METHODOLOGY [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه پژوهش‌های اقتصادی ایران, 2003
In this paper, the structural changes of self-employment are studied in economic sectors of Iran by using decomposition methodology during 1956- 96.The self-employment changes in economic sectors in ten-year period can be decomposed into several ...
Hadi Qavami
doaj  

The glass cage: The gender pay gap and self-employment in the United States [PDF]

open access: yesNew England Journal of Entrepreneurship, 2016
Self-employment is often viewed as a more desirable work arrangement than working as an employee for a firm. Women are pushed into self-employment due to organizational factors, such as a shrinking workforce or limited job opportunities, while being ...
Leanna Lawter   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

What makes Chinese rural migrants self-employed: a qualitative perspective

open access: yesThe Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2022
This study scrutinizes the causes, configuration, and consequences of rural migrants’ motivations for becoming self-employed. It aims to solve two main problems in the current literature.
Shuting Xia
doaj   +1 more source

Demographic factors, family background and prior self-employment on entrepreneurial intention - Vietnamese business students are different: why?

open access: yesJournal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, 2018
This study investigates the impact of demographic factors, prior exposure to self-employment and family background on entrepreneurial intention of Vietnamese business students.
C. Nguyen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Self-employment among the Armed Forces Community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick, QinetiQ and X-Forces Enterprise were commissioned by Forces in Mind Trust to understand what more could be done to support the Armed Forces Community in pursuing self-employment and ...
Barnes, Sally-Anne   +6 more
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