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Selbstständige Erwerbstätigkeit und Erwerbskarrieren in späteren Lebensphasen : Potentiale, Risiken und Wechselverhältnisse

Frerichs, Frerich (ed.); Fachinger, Uwe (ed.) - 2020

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Education, social capital and entrepreneurial selection in Italy

Ferrante, Francesco; Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

There is wide consensus that entrepreneurial talent is the ability to discover and exploit market opportunities by taking the relevant risky decisions. Discovery and exploitation are separate but interlinked features of entrepreneurship requiring, in different proportions, the exploitation of...

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Does Social Capital Mitigate Precariousness?

Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

There is a surprising gap in the economic literature on social capital. First, we lack studies addressing the effects of social capital on those facets of development that can contribute in making growth more sustainable in the long run, like, for example, human development and social cohesion....

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Social Capital and the Labour Market

Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The main question of this paper is: what type of social capital is able to mitigate labour precariousness and to foster human development? This issue has been addressed through a review of the literature and an empirical investigation on the Italian regions. The analysis shows that only bonding...

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New Forms of Employment and the Social Security System: The Case of Germany

Fachinger, Uwe; UF - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

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 …

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Work status and family planning: insights from the Italian puzzle

Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper uses a dataset built by the author on the basis of raw data taken from different national surveys to carry out an investigation into the socio-economic determinants of couples’ childbearing decisions in Italy. Since having children is in most cases a “couple matter”, the...

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Renaissance of Entrepreneurship? Some remarks and empirical evidence for Germany

Boegenhold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

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 …

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Rationality of Self-Employment: Do Female and Male Entrepreneurs Differ?

Bögenhold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

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 …

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