Title: Trends in self-employment in Germany : different types, different developments?
Abstract: Longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) are used to examine developments in self-employment in Germany between 1984 and 1998.Following a discussion of the key characteristics of self-employment in Germany, the GSOEP data are used to determine who becomes self-employed in various fields of activity, as well as how self-employment is internally structured.Other research questions involve the ways in which self-employed work has developed in Germany since the 1980s and the ways in which self-employment differs between women and men. Analysis of the data, which are based on observations of West Germans between the ages of 18 and 60, indicates that self-employment has become an increasingly heterogeneous category since the 1980s.This growing heterogeneity is based on increases in new and nontraditional forms of self-employed work.Generally, people with unstable work histories are more likely than others to take on self-employment.Although men and women are equally qualified for self-employment, women move less often into self-employment and are more likely to exit.Because both stable and unstable forms of self-employed work are growing, self-employment in Germany is not likely to undergo any major changes. (SAA)
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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