Gender Differences

ISBN-13: 9783836423540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 164 str.

Fengbin Chang

Opis

Self-employment is reemerging in modern society. Many scholars attributethis trend to globalization, flexible employment, and the rise of female laborforce participation. However, such observations tend to be constrained byoversimplification and insufficient micro level data. Although womens shareof total self-employment significantly increased during the last decades oftwentieth century in many post-industrial economies, one of the unansweredquestions is whether the mechanism of becoming self-employed differs betweenwomen and men and thus results in different outcomes. This studyuses event history analysis to examine the effects of individual and structuralfactors in determining an individuals opportunities for entering into andexiting from self-employment. The author shows that labor market flexibilityhas a significant impact on peoples career choices. In addition, this studyalso compares earnings and job satisfaction between self-employed andwage workers. The book is addressed to professtionals and policy makers indeveloping countries. It is also directed towards researchers in stratification,labor market, comparative study, and globalization.