important factor affecting the decision to become self-employed in Italy. We focus on the two main categories of self … individual expected SSW that occurred as a result of the policy reform process undertaken in Italy during the 1990s to identify …

-employment in Italyfrom 1980 to 1997.First, a discussion of the composite nature ofself-employment in Italy is offered …-employment in Italy is male-dominated and thatage affects female entries into self-employment more than it does maleentries.The data …

Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998 …, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) carried out by the Bank of Italy. Stylised facts …