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.
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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.