chosen self-employment. Two questions are addressed using large scale labour force survey data for the UK. The first concerns … entrepreneurship on the basis of stated motivation, but with no evidence that being 'forced' into entrepreneurship through economic … necessity is a significant factor. Motivation towards entrepreneurship is therefore highly multidimensional. Multivariate …

uncertainty). This paper presents empirical evidence on the dynamics of entrepreneurial transition drawing on data from Waves 8 to …

Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event', the literature argues that self-employed workers and … Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from …

representation and collective bargaining. Using data from the British Labour Force Survey we test two hypotheses: (1) Dependent self … autonomy than self-employed workers. The data support our hypothesis that dependent self-employed workers are a distinct labour …

membership in social networks are important empirical issues with significant policy consequences. We use detailed micro-data on …

contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, using French data from the ECHP and British data from the BHPS, we …

psychological disposition and environmental factors, as theory requires if optimism is to be a causal influence on entrepreneurship. …

borrowing constraints of the firm. We then use a unique data-set comprising large nationally representative surveys of small and …