This critical review of the literature on female entrepreneurship problematizes the
metanarrative of economic growth and the mechanisms through which it both operates and …

Using data on all businesses started by mothers of young children in Sweden between 2000
and 2014, we explore which factors are associated with entrepreneurship among mothers …

In recent years, there has been a steady increase in the number of own-account workers
(the self-employed without employees), including freelancers, in many developed …

This paper analyzes the timing between self-employment entry and first child birth among
Swedish women, using register data for the cohort of women born between 1970 and 1975 …

Previous studies, mostly from Anglo-Saxon countries, find a positive correlation between the
presence of young children in the household and self-employment probabilities among …

The most dynamic economies in the world are characterised by an entrepreneurial,
innovation-driven business sector. And this requires firms to unburden themselves from …

Available online: https://pub. norden. org/temanord2021-503/Most Nordic labour market and
welfare state models are shaped around the notion of the standard full-time open-ended …

Interview and observational studies document that dual-caring is characterized by
temporality. Two 'ideal-typical'trajectories are identified:'halving it all'in which couples divide …

Workers increasingly struggle to combine work and other responsibilities. Self-employment
might be a strategy to achieve greater autonomy and work-life balance in comparison to …

Although the decline of self-employment has been a fundamental factor in the environment
of the Japanese labor market for more than a quarter of a century, economic research on self …