The study discusses myths of entrepreneurship by looking at the overlapping areas of entrepreneurship, self-employment and professions. The study argues that professions are part of the category of self-employment. Additionally, the study presents empirical findings drawn from a unique empirical...

Bisherige empirische Untersuchungen zu den Ausgaben privater Haushalte waren zum Großteil güterspezifisch ausgerichtet, d. h. auf eine Gütergruppe oder auf ein einzelnes Gut bezogen. In ihrer Gesamtheit stellen sie solchermaßen eher einen Flickenteppich als ein in sich konsistentes Bild dar....

The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working on their own having no or just a few employees and where one can find also people working with low returns and having firms without stability or prosperous dynamics. However, even the area of...

This paper contributes to our knowledge of the determinants of job satisfaction by analysing the effects of employment status (self-employed or salaried employee) and work characteristics (autonomy, variety, task identity, task significance and feedback) on job satisfaction in a sample of 2327...