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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Self-Employed"”.
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The economic impact of education spending : evidence from self-employed households
I examine the consumption and labor decisions of self-employed households when a child goes to college using unique financial transactions data from the linked accounts of small businesses and their owners. Households respond to the increase in education spending by downsizing business production …
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Job Satisfaction and Empowerment of Self-Employed Nurse Practitioners: A Mixed Methods Study
<p>Background and Purpose: Self-employed nurse practitioners (NPs) have been part of the American health care landscape since the 1980s, owning practices throughout the United States. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experience of self-employed NPs, focusing on their level of job …
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Giving Voice to Self-Employed Workers Born Before 1980: Experiences and Perceptions of Communication Technology
… the experiences and perceptions of older, self-employed workers born before 1980 regarding computer self-efficacy related to communication technology before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings of this study provided insight into their perception of age as an influencer on their …
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Continuity and change: the professional lives and culture of self-employed barristers in England and Wales
This thesis explores how self-employed barristers responded to the reforms that have reshaped the profession in the last 25 years, to assess if and how their professional lives and perceptions of Bar identity and culture have changed as a result. The loss of its advocacy monopoly, cuts to legal …
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Social Networks, Social Support and the Working Lives of Self-Employed Young People in Ghana and Nigeria
… dissertation investigates how the social ties of self-employed youth in Ghana and Nigeria shape their transition into self-employment and impact their working lives. While many young people in the West African labour market are self-employed, there has been a lack of research into the social …
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Contracting work out to self employed workers : does South African law adequately recognise and regulate this practice?
… practice referred to as contracting work out to self-employed workers. This involves contracting work out to individual workers who in turn employ other workers to assist them. The study considers the use of this practice in South Africa, where it emerged in the 1990s. It examines empirical …
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Self-employed youth and youth employed in governmental positions: an analysis of high school and beyond data
… to differentiate 1,318 youth who attained either self-employment or positions working for a governmental entity within four years after high school. Differentiation was assessed based on the "push" and "pull" theories of employment. The sample was taken from the High School and Beyond 1980, 1982, …
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New frontiers for Labour Law: Collective Bargaining for Workers in Global Supply Chains and Informal Self-Employed Workers
… work relations' can incorporate informal self-employed workers into its scope despite the absence of a contractual relationship with the entity that controls their workplace. Realising street vendors' rights to collective bargaining as subjects of labour law (rather than of other law) …
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Selling, yet still social: The continuing rhetorical importance of a consociational personhood among the self-employed in eastern Germany
… the rhetorics of personhood among the self-employed in Halle an der Saale, eastern Germany, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork among businesspersons, advisors and officials. Sociality and rhetoric culture theory suggests that it is the persuasive action of humans which effects …
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The Meaning of Being Independent: Precarities of Work and Lifestyles and Alternative-Seeking among Chinese Self-Employed Cultural Workers
… the many emerging terms relevant to self-employed/independent workers, such as freelancers and flexible workers, and the growing discussion regarding new types of work and entrepreneurship, self-employed workers are still a minority in the Chinese labour market. Without an official …
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Technological change & the changing nature of grassroots development organizations : the case of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA)
Grassroots development organizations (GDOs) are defined by their hybrid identity as part social movement and part NGO. In the last decade, they have received renewed attention from the international development community due to their unique governance structure that, unlike their traditional NGO …
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Work-family interaction strain: coping strategies used by successful women in the public, corporate and self employed sectors of the economy
… 110 women in the public, corporate and self-employed sectors of the economy. All the participants were married with at least one child of pre school or school going age. The women worked in positions from middle- management and higher in corporate and public sector organizations or were …
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The politics of the urban informal sector and dominant social institutions : a case study on the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
… case specific? I analyze the case study of the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) to answer these questions. SEWA is one of India's most successful voluntary organizations having its roots in the trade union movement in India and has since 1972 organized more than 300,000 UIS women …
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Insights from a New Division of the Self-employed: Analysis of Characteristics, Earnings Returns and Labour Market Transitions using the BHPS and UKHLS
This thesis examines self-employed individuals in the UK labour market, creating a new division that differentiates those who sustain by self-employment from those who move between self-employment and employee jobs. The thesis begins with an exploration of the characteristics of the different …
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Devising a refined framework for distinguishing between ‘workers’ and ‘self-employed persons-undertakings’ in the EU labour and competition law fields: Lessons from the EU agency acquis
… in the grey area between ‘employment’ and ‘self-employment’. On the one hand, these new working professionals (i.e., Uber drivers) do not satisfy the archetypical paradigm of subordinate employees working under open-ended contracts of employment for one principal throughout their lives. On …
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Women of Enterprise: A Study of Success and Failure Incidents From Self-Employed Women Using the Perspectives of Bakan's Constructs of Agency and Communion and Attribution Theory
The purpose of this study was to investigate how self-employed women interpret the entrepreneurial experience. More specifically, success and failure incidents described by self-employed women were examined with regard to two types of meanings, agentic and communal, and with regard to the caus
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The new role of labor unions as developers of responsive dependent care benefit programs : extending dependent care benefits to the independent contractor, freelancer and self-employed worker : a study of professional freelance musicians from Boston Musicians' Association Local 9-535
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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