Agriculture
Barriers to entry
Capitalism
Career
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Compulsory education
Corporation
Deregulation
Determinant
Developed country
Dummy variable (statistics)
Economic development
Economic growth
Economics
Economy
Employment
Entrepreneurship
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Estimation
Exit rate
Expense
Freelancer
Gender pay gap
Globalization
Household
Housewife
Human capital
Income
Industry
Institution
Insurance
Labour law
Lawyer
Lohmann (company)
Market (economics)
Middle class
Multivariate analysis
Of Education
Outsourcing
Pension
Percentage
Probability
Productivity
Profession
Recession
Requirement
Retail
Retirement
Salary
Secondary education
Secondary sector of the economy
Self-employment
Service economy
Service Sector
Shopkeeper
Small business
Social capital
Social class
Social mobility
Social science
Social stratification
Sociology
Spouse
Subcontractor
Tax
Tertiary education
Unemployment
Vocational education
Wage
Welfare
Workforce
Year
Product details
- ISBN 9780691117577
- Weight: 709g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 are being replaced by self-employment in both professional and unskilled occupations. Differences in self-employment across societies depend on the extent to which labor markets are regulated and the degree to which intergenerational family relationships are a primary factor structuring social organization. For each of the eleven countries analyzed, the book highlights the extent to which social background, educational attainment, work history, family status, and gender affect the likelihood that an individual will enter--and continue--a particular type of self-employment. While involvement with self-employment is becoming more common, it is occurring for individuals in activities that are more diverse, unstable and transitory than in years past.
Richard Arum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions, at New York University. Walter Muller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Mannheim and Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research.
