TY  - BOOK
AU  - Amossé,Thomas
AU  - Arum,Richard
AU  - Barbieri,Paolo
AU  - Bates,Peter
AU  - Bison,Ivano
AU  - Blumberg,Boris F.
AU  - Bukodi,Erzsébe
AU  - Evans,M.D.R.
AU  - Gerber,Theodore P.
AU  - Goux,Dominique
AU  - Graaf,Paul M.de
AU  - Ishida,Hiroshi
AU  - Lohmann,Henning
AU  - Luber,Silvia
AU  - Meager,Nigel
AU  - Müller,Walter
AU  - Róbert,Péter
AU  - Sikora,Joanna
AU  - Su,Kuo-Hsien
AU  - Yu,Wei-hsin
TI  - The Reemergence of Self-Employment: A Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality 
SN  - 9780691117577
U1  - 331.12 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Tables --; Preface --; Chapter One. Self-Employment Dynamics in Advanced Economies --; Chapter Two. Trends in Self-Employment in Germany: Different Types, Different Developments? --; Chapter Three. Entries and Exits from Self-Employment in France over the Last Twenty Years --; Chapter Four. Dutch Self-Employment between 1980 and 1997 --; Chapter Five. Self-Employment in the United Kingdom during the 1980s and 1990s --; Chapter Six. Entrepreneurs and Laborers: Two Sides of Self-Employment Activity in the United States --; Chapter Seven. Self-Employment in Australia, 1980-1999 --; Chapter Eight. Winners or Losers? Entry and Exit into Self-Employment in Hungary: 1980s and 1990s --; Chapter Nine. Three Forms of Emergent Self-Employment in Post-Soviet Russia: Entry and Exit Patterns by Gender --; Chapter Ten. Self-Employment in Italy: Scaling the Class Barriers --; Chapter Eleven. Entry into and Exit from Self-Employment in Japan --; CHAPTER TWELVE. On One's Own: Self-Employment Activity in Taiwan --; Chapter Thirteen. The Reemergence of Self-Employment: Comparative Findings and Empirical Propositions --; Contributors' Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400826117
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400826117
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