Richard Arum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions, at New York University. Walter Muller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Mannheim and Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research.

"Inspired and impressive. This will become the standard work on its topic."—John Goldthorpe, Nuffield College, Oxford University

• Illustrations vii Tables xi Preface xv Chapter One Self-Employment Dynamics in Advanced Economies 1 Walter Muller and Richard Arum Chapter Two Trends in Self-Employment in Germany: Different Types, Different Developments? 36 Henning Lohmann and Silvia Luber Chapter Three Entries and Exits from Self-Employment in France over the Last Twenty Years 75 Thomas Amosse and Dominique Goux Chapter Four Dutch Self-Employment between 1980 and 1997 104 Boris F. Blumberg and Paul M. de Graaf Chapter Five Self-Employment in the United Kingdom during the 1980s and 1990s 135 Nigel Meager and Peter Bates Chapter Six Entrepreneurs and Laborers: Two Sides of Self-Employment Activity in the United States 170 Richard Arum Chapter Seven Self-Employment in Australia,1980-1999 203 M.D.R.Evans and Joanna Sikora Chapter Eight Winners or Losers? Entry and Exit into Self-Employment in Hungary: 1980s and 1990s 245 Peter Robert and Erzsebet Bukodi Chapter Nine Three Forms of Emergent Self-Employment in Post-Soviet Russia: Entry and Exit Patterns by Gender 277 Theodore P.Gerber Chapter Ten Self-Employment in Italy: Scaling the Class Barriers 310 Paolo Barbieri and Ivano Bison Chapter Eleven Entry into and Exit from Self-Employment in Japan 348 Hiroshi Ishida Chapter Twelve On One's Own: Self-Employment Activity in Taiwan 388 Wei-hsin Yu and Kuo-Hsien Su Chapter Thirteen The Reemergence of Self-Employment: Comparative Findings and Empirical Propositions 426 Richard Arum and Walter Muller Contributors' Notes 455 Index 459

Richard Arum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions, at New York University. Walter Muller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Mannheim and Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research.

"Inspired and impressive. This will become the standard work on its topic."—John Goldthorpe, Nuffield College, Oxford University

• Illustrations vii Tables xi Preface xv Chapter One Self-Employment Dynamics in Advanced Economies 1 Walter Muller and Richard Arum Chapter Two Trends in Self-Employment in Germany: Different Types, Different Developments? 36 Henning Lohmann and Silvia Luber Chapter Three Entries and Exits from Self-Employment in France over the Last Twenty Years 75 Thomas Amosse and Dominique Goux Chapter Four Dutch Self-Employment between 1980 and 1997 104 Boris F. Blumberg and Paul M. de Graaf Chapter Five Self-Employment in the United Kingdom during the 1980s and 1990s 135 Nigel Meager and Peter Bates Chapter Six Entrepreneurs and Laborers: Two Sides of Self-Employment Activity in the United States 170 Richard Arum Chapter Seven Self-Employment in Australia,1980-1999 203 M.D.R.Evans and Joanna Sikora Chapter Eight Winners or Losers? Entry and Exit into Self-Employment in Hungary: 1980s and 1990s 245 Peter Robert and Erzsebet Bukodi Chapter Nine Three Forms of Emergent Self-Employment in Post-Soviet Russia: Entry and Exit Patterns by Gender 277 Theodore P.Gerber Chapter Ten Self-Employment in Italy: Scaling the Class Barriers 310 Paolo Barbieri and Ivano Bison Chapter Eleven Entry into and Exit from Self-Employment in Japan 348 Hiroshi Ishida Chapter Twelve On One's Own: Self-Employment Activity in Taiwan 388 Wei-hsin Yu and Kuo-Hsien Su Chapter Thirteen The Reemergence of Self-Employment: Comparative Findings and Empirical Propositions 426 Richard Arum and Walter Muller Contributors' Notes 455 Index 459