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 … opens up new avenues by taking us beyond the push-pull-dichotomy, which over-simplifies the decision to enter self-employment …

new forms of employment were caused by the economic process of tertiarization. Furthermore, these kinds of employment were … politically demanded and financially supported. However, those forms of employment have their shortcomings. From an …

periods of seeking a new job during unemployment. With growing solo self-employment a new social phenomenon in the structure … each other. The question for the landscape of solo self-employment and related driving forces of their emergence is of … response to new life-styles and working demands which act as pulling factors into self-employment? In other words, does solo …

It is not clear, whether changes in self-employment are primarily driven by the necessity to take part in the labour … investigating the above-mentioned developments. Do we find specific “gender patterns” within the increasing expansion of self-employment …, or will the new chances and risks lead to greater equality of opportunities? Is the increase of solo-self-employment of …