scholarly journals Self-employment duration in urban and rural locations

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (19) ◽  
pp. 2449-2461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mika Haapanen ◽  
Hannu Tervo
Keyword(s):  
Self Employment ◽  
Employment Duration

scholarly journals EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT FACTORS ON SELF-EMPLOYMENT DURATION IN THE COUNTRY WITH TRANSITION ECONOMY: A LITHUANIAN CASE

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gražina Startienė ◽  
Rita Remeikienė
Keyword(s):  
Transition Economy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Employment Factors ◽  
Employment Duration ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

The focus of this article is the factors of self-employment duration having the bidirectional effect (positive or negative) on a self-employed person. The research of the impact of bidirectional self-employment factors on self-employment direction has been encouraged by several reasons. Firstly, the scientific literature lacks of the research to focus on the factors motivating self-employment sustainability. The more abilities a person has to sustain self-employment activity, the more benefits he brings to the country (GDP creation, increase of employment, taxes paid) and his personal environment (ensured material well-being, good psychological state, realized objectives). Secondly, realising the impact of self-employment factors on self-employment duration, the government of the country can start application of the targeted business regulation measures that can help to increase the employment rate in the country. Using the methods of expert evaluation and correlation analysis, the impact of the highlighted self-employment factors on self-employment duration in the country with transition economy (Lithuanian case) has been evaluated: self-employment development is positively influenced by financial and non-financial business promotion measures, decreasing gross domestic product (GDP), extraversion, low level of neuroticism, openness, younger people, education andmarital status defined by having older children; it is negatively influenced by inflexible labour market, high unemployment rate, high income taxes and the immigrants. The article highlights the specificity of the country with transition economy considering the fact that business environment conditions in such countries are more difficult than in industrial countries.

Becoming Self-Employed: The Case of Japanese Men

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariah Mantsun Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Japanese Men ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Career Option ◽  
Employment Duration ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Work Histories

From a dynamic, life course perspective, this study examines the determinants of nonfarm self-employment for Japanese men from around the 1930s to 1975. Using work histories in a national mobility survey, the author studied the propensity of becoming self-employed at labor force entry and in later career. Results suggest that (a) father's self-employment is important; but (b) family-employed status does not enhance one's chances; and (c) historical, economic conditions affect propensity significantly at the moment of labor force entrance. Tiny-firm workers are more likely to move into self-employment. Industrial sector and employment duration also affect one's taking nonfarm self-employment as a career option.

scholarly journals How kinship resources alleviate structural disadvantage: self-employment duration among refugees and labor migrants

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aliaksei Kazlou ◽  
Karl Wennberg
Keyword(s):  
Regression Models ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Cox Regression ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ethnic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Employment Success ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Employment Duration

Purpose Economic integration of refugees remains a challenge for developed countries. Although refugees differ greatly from labor migrants in available resources and motivation toward self-employment, prevailing studies on minority and ethnic entrepreneurship tend to lump these different categories of migrants together. Based on theories of migrants’ economic embeddedness, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent to which family- and kinship-based resources affect self-employment duration among refugees and labor migrants. Design/methodology/approach Based on Cox regression models, this longitudinal study estimates the self-employment duration of 10,519 refugees and 2,503 labor migrants starting businesses in Sweden in the period 2006–2012. Findings Results reveal that while refugees are at a disadvantage to labor migrants in terms of self-employment duration, their higher level of family embeddedness in part helps them overcome these disadvantages. For refugees but not for labor migrants, co-location in an ethnic enclave also lowers the risk of them becoming unemployed after a spell in entrepreneurship. Originality/value This original paper provides empirical and theoretical contributions to research on migrants’ self-employment success. It also discusses contributions for research on entrepreneurs’ social embeddedness and refugees’ entrepreneurship.

Turkish Muslims in a German city: Entrepreneurial and residential self-determination

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sarah Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
German City ◽  
Post War ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Term Objective

Drawing upon a collection of oral history interviews, this paper offers an insight into entrepreneurial and residential patterns and behaviour amongst Turkish Muslims in the German city of Bremen. The academic literature has traditionally argued that Turkish migrants in Germany have been pushed into self-employment, low-quality housing and segregated neighbourhoods as a result of discrimination, and poor employment and housing opportunities. Yet the interviews reveal the extent to which Bremen’s Turkish Muslims’ performances and experiences have overwhelmingly been the consequences of personal choices and ambitions. For many of the city’s Turkish Muslim entrepreneurs, self-employment had been a long-term objective, and they have succeeded in establishing and running their businesses in the manner they choose with regards to location and clientele, for example. Similarly, interviewees stressed the way in which they were able to shape their housing experiences by opting which districts of the city to live in and by purchasing property. On the whole, they perceive their entrepreneurial and residential practices as both consequences and mediums of success, integration and a loyalty to the city of Bremen. The findings are contextualised within the wider debate regarding the long-term legacy of Germany’s post-war guest-worker system and its position as a “country of immigration”.

Entrepreneurship as Social Status: Turkish Immigrants’ Experiences of Self-Employment in Finland

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Östen Wahlbeck
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Turkish Immigrants ◽  
Self Employment

The article discusses the experiences of self-employment among immigrants from Turkey living in Finland. The immigrants are mainly active in the restaurant and fast food sector in Finland, primarily in small kebap and pizza businesses. The article argues that both economic and social aspects explain the experiences of self-employment. Despite economic hardship, the freedom and social status connected to entrepreneurship is highly valued. Self-employment provides a positive self-understanding and a good social status, which the immigrants from Turkey find it difficult to achieve by any other means in Finnish society

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