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Self-Employment Career Dynamics: The Case of `Unemployment Push' in UK Book Publishing:

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The recent revival of self-employment in the UK and other advanced industrialized economies has been viewed contrastingly as an indication of economic vitality and, alternatively, as a form of labo....
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The recent revival of self-employment in the UK and other advanced industrialized economies has been viewed contrastingly as an indication of economic vitality and, alternatively, as a form of labo...

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Pushed or Pulled? Women's Entry into Self‐Employment and Small Business Ownership

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted interviews with 61 self-employed women in Canada and found that women have been pushed into self-employment by the promise of independence, flexibility and the opportunity to escape barriers in paid employment, while some argue that women were pushed into it as restructuring and downsizing has eroded the availability of once secure jobs in the public and private sector.
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Factors influencing the entrepreneurial engagement of opportunity and necessity entrepreneurs

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the differences between business owners motivated by opportunity and necessity in terms of their socioeconomic characteristics, personality, and perceptions of entrepreneurial support, and found that those who prefer being a business owner and those who have more favorable perceptions of financial start-up support are more likely to be an opportunity versus a necessity business owner.
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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Is it U-Shaped?

TL;DR: The authors provided an overview of the empirical evidence concerning the relationship between independent entrepreneurship, also known as self-employment or business ownership, and economic development and argued that the reemergence of independent entrepreneurship is based on at least two'revolutions' If we distinguish between solo self-employed at the lower end of the entrepreneurship spectrum, and ambitious and/or innovative entrepreneurs at the upper end, many advanced economies show a revival at both extremes.
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Social constructionism in the study of career: Accessing the parts that other approaches cannot reach

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the contribution of a social constructionist perspective to our understandings of career, and examine this approach in relation to two studies: a study of women's career transition from organizational employment to portfolio work, and the careers of research scientists.
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The Transition from Organisational Employment to Portfolio Working: Perceptions of `Boundarylessness'

TL;DR: The transition of managers and professionals out of organisational employment into portfolio work is discussed in this paper, where interviews with individuals who had left organisations to set up on their own are conducted to explore their interpretations of their experiences.
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The Career Dynamics of Self-Employment

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the process by which individuals move into and out of self-employment by separately examining the rates of movement into selfemployment and family employment and established a general framework of how the self-employment process operates.
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The career dynamics of self-employment.

TL;DR: Carroll et al. as discussed by the authors studied the process of entry into self-employment at various stages of the career, and the career differences between the self-employed and the conventional employed.
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The Decline and Rise of Self-Employment:

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors challenge the currently popular argument that the long-term decline of self-employment has come to a halt in the 1970s in the advanced industrialized economies.
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How to develop skills for freelancing?

The research reported here, into freelancing in book publishing, reveals patterns of entry into self-employment which reflect the presence of both these processes, plus additional configurations and changes over time.