This article deals with explaining the sizable differences in the rate of self–employment
(business ownership) across 15 European countries in the period 1978–2000, within a …

This work explores self-employment in Britain across recent years with a particular focus on
when individuals became self-employed, who is more or less likely to enter self-employment …

Self-employed people are substantially more satisfied with their work than the employed. We
document this relationship for a large number of countries and investigate why the self …

The paper examines the role and influence of self-employment across the OECD. The
overall trend in self-employment, at the economy level in the years since 1966, has been …

Most studies in the economics discourse argue that the impact of self-employment on job
satisfaction is mediated by greater procedural freedom and autonomy. Values and …

This paper examines the determinants of self-employment and transitions from salaried
employment to self-employment using two sets of Finnish data from the 1990s. The results …

As several European governments develop new start-up programmes during recessions, the
appropriateness of these policies recently has become a hot policy issue. This study …

Purpose–Many unemployed people become self‐employed. Self‐employment, however,
does not necessarily lead to success. The main objective of the paper is to compare the …

This paper presents a review of empirical studies of self‐employment for the Australian,
Canadian, Dutch, UK and US labour markets. Both cross‐sectional and longitudinal studies …

This paper investigates the determinants of self-employment survival in Europe in two
stages. The first one focuses on the effect of variables at the individual level, while the …