Flexible Wissensarbeit in Form hoch qualifizierter selbständiger Beschäftigung stellt in der Bundesrepublik einen relativ neuen Erwerbstypus dar, der im Dienstleistungssektor auf Expansionskurs ist. Der Beitrag stellt zentrale Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung im exemplarischen Feld...

This paper is concerned with occupational choice under risk, where agents care about their social status. It is motivated by recent developments in the 'New Economy', which indicate that status preferences possibly provide an explanation for the observed shift towards entrepreneurial...

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-emlployment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...