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 ...
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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.
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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 466 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2003060700 Type of material Book Main title The reemergence of self-employment: a comparative study of self-employment dynamics and social inequality / edited by Richard Arum and Walter Mueller. Published/Created Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004. Description xvii, 466 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 069111756X (cl: alk. paper) 0691117578 (pbk. : alk. paper) LC classification HD8036. R44 2004 Related names Arum, Richard. Mueller, Walter, 1942-Contents Self-employment dynamics in advanced economies / Walter Mu?ller 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 Amosse? 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 / Pe?ter Ro?bert and Erzse?bet 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 Mu?ller. Subjects Self-employed. Equality. Social status. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 331.12 Other class no. 83.82 85.65 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocm52728937
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