The chapter discusses self-employment in the context of international and Union law. The phenomenon of self-employed activity grows in popularity as a result of massive social and economic as well as technological change. ...

The objective of the chapter is to analyse legal regulations concerning selfemployed activity in force in Germany and Austria. First and foremost, the author presents the scale of self-employment in the relevant countries ...

The purpose of the present article is to present to the readers the key concepts underlying the international research project funded by the National Science Centre and led by Prof. Tomasz Duraj titled “In Search of the ...

The United Kingdom has noted a rapid increase in the number of self-employed persons in the last forty years. This has prompted a return to the debate on the regulation of this category of workers. What are the key ...

The objective of the article is to analyse legal regulations concerning self-employed activity in force in France and Italy. Given that both countries are characterized by a dualism between subordinated work and self-employment, ...

Self-employment has traditionally been regulated by the Civil Code, as a distinctive form of work apart from employment. This chapter strives to evaluate the labour law framework and labour market experience of self-employment. ...

The objective of the article is to analyse legal regulations concerning self-employed activity in force in Spain. Spain is the first EU Member State to have adopted a separate law (on 11 July 2007) to comprehensively and ...