last decade, it still accounts for almost a third of them, or around 800,000 people. Solo self-employment is frequently … only a temporary form of employment. Most solo entrepreneurs who cease trading take up dependent employment. This may be … partly because self-employment originally only represented a stopgap for them in the absence of alternative employment …

employment in Romania from 1993 to 1995. The data show not only a large drop in aggregate industry employment, but also a decline …

; assimilation ; second generation effects ; gender …

evaluations of minimum wages for specific industries. The present paper discusses the empirical studies on the wage and employment … employment effects. Both the limited available data and general employment trends in this sector make such evaluation studies … employment effects of introducing a general minimum wage can be derived from the results of evaluations of sector …

employment, wages, and hours of work. In order to assess whether the changes experienced by workers in the sectors analysed were … income as a result of the law. -- minimum wage ; South Africa ; wage ; employment ; hours of work …

In Germany, the number of women in relationships who are in gainful employment is on the rise. According to recent … for this development is the increasing shift of women out of unemployment and into part-time and marginal employment …, particularly in western Germany. In eastern Germany, where female employment and working hours have long been higher than in the …

; intergenerational mobility ; SOEP …

and, moreover, the resultant social inequality is also "inherited." -- intergenerational mobility ; education ; health …