Cooperative employment has long been condemned to the fringes of employment legislation. In Spain, although protection was afforded it for some time, particularly from 1999 onwards, a certain amount of discrimination, from a legal viewpoint at least, can now be discerned. This is at odds with...

One of the main objectives of the employment policies currently being implemented in the Spanish labour market is to promote and develop self-employment. This article studies and analyses the current situation and the recent growth of self-employment in Spain, and provides a number of...

There is general consensus on the phases and structures that make up integration itineraries and even on their characteristics. However, personalised, cross-cutting aspects of selfemployment have not generally formed part of them. By analysing the integration itineraries of thirteen drug...

This study provides a general overview of the development of self-employment based on the analysis of the shift from paid to self-employment and looks at the factors leading to its growth from a socio-economic viewpoint. The study will then assess the various means of providing freelance work,...