Search Results - subject:"‘autonomy’"

International Law, Trade, Environment and Sovereignty : Reference to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

Olwor, Nicholas - 2022

Sovereignty is a key matter in international law. Due to new problems and demands, the density of international institutions has risen in the new world order bringing in new international norms that are intrusive on each other. This study focused on international law and its relationship to...

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Minimum Wages and the Rise in Solo Self-Employment

Ganserer, Angelika; Gregory, Terry; Zierahn-Weilage, Ulrich - 2022

Solo self-employment is on the rise despite less favorable working conditions compared to traditional jobs. We show that the introduction of minimum wages in German industries led to an increase in the share of solo self-employment by up to 8.5 percentage points. We explain our findings within a...

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Living in Rural Areas and Self-Employment

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022

This paper examines whether workers living in rural areas are more likely to be self-employed, compared with those in urban areas. We provide evidence for 35 European countries, using the European Working Conditions Survey for the year 2015. We also study the time devoted to market work, and...

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New Gig Work or Changes in Reporting? Understanding Self-Employment Trends in Tax Data

Garin, Andrew; Jackson, Emilie; Koustas, Dmitri - 2022

Rising self-employment rates in U.S. tax data that are absent in survey data have led to speculation that tax records capture a rise in new "gig" work that surveys miss. Drawing on the universe of IRS tax returns, we show that trends in firm-reported payments to "gig" and other contract workers...

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Too Cold to Venture There? January Temperature and Immigrant Self-Employment Across the United States

Lee, Jun; Winters, John V. - 2022

Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms. However, we document that immigrant self-employment...

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Pandemic Depression : COVID-19 and the Mental Health of the Self-Employed

Caliendo, Marco; Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022

We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health,...

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Organizing work and activities to cope with age : the role of entrepreneurship for individuals aged 50+

Holmquist, Carin; Sundin, Elisabeth - In: Qualitative research in organizations and management : … 17 (2022) 2, pp. 236-252

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Women's entrepreneurship at an older age : women linguists' hybrid careers

Römer-Paakkanen, Tarja; Takanen-Körperich, Pirjo - In: Qualitative research in organizations and management : … 17 (2022) 2, pp. 253-273

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Team autonomy and organizational support, well-being, and work engagement in the spain computer consultancy industry : the mediating effect of emotional intelligence

Suárez-Albanchez, Julio; Jiménez Estévez, Pedro; … - In: Administrative Sciences : open access journal 12 (2022) 3, pp. 1-16

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of autonomy at work and organizations' support for their employees on … relationship between job autonomy and the organizational support received by workers and their well-being, as well as between the … autonomy and organizational support and the well-being of workers is also evident. We can conclude that improving the autonomy …

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Postfeminism, hybrid mumpreneur identities and the reproduction of masculine entrepreneurship

Lewis, Patricia; Rumens, Nick; Simpson, Ruth - In: International small business journal : ISBJ 40 (2022) 1, pp. 68-89

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