...Benjamin Bolger; Frank Crowley; Justin Doran; Nóirín McCarthy; Bernadette Power Purpose This study investigates the role of earnings in the relationship between age and self-employment decisions, which has remained unclear. By bringing together two areas of the self-employment literature...

...Vu Tuan Chu; Hien Thu Tran Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic created not only a public health crisis but also the largest disruption to the global economies. The purpose of the paper is to investigate the adverse impacts of the pandemic on self-employment including job loss, income reduction and cut...

...Degsew Melak; Tegegne Derbe Increasing loan size has a positive and significant influence on youth engagement in all self-employment business choices and has reminded us the need to revise or lift up loan size celling to assist youths in engaging in productive sectors. Similarly...

... the scant existing scholarship on this issue. Shawn Best can be contacted at: bestshawn.sb@gmail.com 06 06 2019 24 10 2019 31 01 2021 22 07 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Self-employment Work–life...

...Andrew Atherton; Dongxu Wu; Zhongmin Wu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand whether the personal capital of the entrepreneur positively or negatively affects outcomes from self-employment. Design/methodology/approach Data from the UK’s longitudinal household surveys (BHPS, UKLHS...

...Collette Henry; Laura Treanor; Kate V. Lewis; Elizabeth A. Walker Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the self‐employment experiences of a group of “third age entrepreneurs” from a business assistance perspective. As well as examining what sources of business assistance are utilised...

... governmental initiatives, policies and training programs they receive. During the last few decades SMEs and self‐employment have been seen as the panacea to nearly anything (Kloosterman, 2003 ; Deakins et al., 2007). SMEs comprise the largest portion of businesses in most developed...