initiatives that aim at encouraging the formation of new firms in Switzerland. However, an accom-panying scientific study of these … in 1999 of 745 newly founded firms in Switzerland. Initial results are presented concerning the fol-lowing areas: (1 …

encouraging the formation of new firms in Switzerland. However, an accompanying scientific study of these initiatives is lacking … founded firms in Switzerland. In the paper results are presented concerning gender-specific differencces among jung …

encouraging the formation of new firms in Switzerland. However, an accompanying scientific study of these initiatives is lacking … founded firms in Switzerland. In this paper the resutls of 9 case studies are presented concerning the following areas: (1 …

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 …