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Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...
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Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415754
-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family …
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chosen self-employment. Two questions are addressed using large scale labour force survey data for the UK. The first concerns … entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …
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Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self-employment can offer, allowing them to balance their family...
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data is provided. Individual demographic and resource characteristics are found to be more important, but place effects are … relatively weak. Entrepreneurship policy needs to target particular groups, including women and less experienced business owners …
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Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self-employment can offer, allowing them to balance their family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161974
Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event', the literature argues that self-employed workers and … Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from …
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CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the current austerity regimes, CEs and community entrepreneurship are …
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CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the current austerity regimes, CEs and community entrepreneurship are …
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