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1 online resource (xvii, 466 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Self-employment dynamics in advanced economies / Walter Müller 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 Amossé 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 / Péter Róbert and Erzsébet 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 Müller. |
| Summary |
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 organ. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Self-employed.
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Self-employed. |
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Equality.
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Equality. |
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Social status.
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Social status. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Arum, Richard.
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Müller, Walter, 1942-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reemergence of self-employment. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2004 069111756X 9780691117560 (DLC) 2003060700 (OCoLC)52728937 |
| ISBN |
9781400826117 (electronic book) |
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140082611X (electronic book) |
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069111756X (cl ; alkaline paper) |
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0691117578 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691117560 |
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9780691117577 |
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