Self employment, small firms and enterprise
By: Peter Urwin
Series: Research monograph -- 66; Research monographs (Institute of Economic Affairs (Great Britain)) -- 66.
Publisher: Institute of Economic Affairs
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9780255366106
Subjects: Self-employed; Small business; Selbständiger; Kleinunternehmer; Entrepreneurship
Description: This monograph considers issues that are central to our understanding of self-employment in the UK. The author begins with a review on the evidence of the role of self employment and entrepreneurship in employment creation. The discussion then moves on to consider self-employment as a route for advancement of many groups in society that face disadvantage in the labour market. The author concludes by considering the role of government in this relationship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-171).
Table of contents: title: 1. Self-employment in the UK; title: What is self-employment?; title: Self-employment without employees grows while the smallest businesses are squeezed out; title: 2. Why do people choose self-employment?; title: Alan Sugar and the disgruntled dreamers; title: From desire to decision: who becomes self-employed?; title: Access to finance; title: Annex: Statistical analysis of the self-employed/employee distinction; title: 3. Disadvantage, the self-employed and their employees; title: Ethnicity, immigration and religion; title: Unemployment, inactivity and language; title: Employees of the self-employed; title: Multivariate analysis; title: Conclusion; title: 4. Business births and failed experiments; title: Births, deaths and marriages; title: Serial entrepreneurs and the self-employed with or without employees; title: Regulation and legislation; title: Conclusion; title: 5. Self-employment and entrepreneurial insight; title: Entrepreneurship; title: Entrepreneurial insight; title: Unknown unknowns; title: Entrepreneurship and the firm; title: Old firms, new firms and skill of entrepreneurship; title: Conclusion; title: 6. Conclusions and implications for policy; title: Self-employment versus employment; title: Regulation of firms; title: Entrepreneurship and small firms; title: Conclusion.