The flip side of self-employment

The sociologist Dieter Bögenhold is advocating a critical discourse on the functions and effects of self-employment on national economies. After all, not all that glistens is gold when it comes to labour market statistics.

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The ball is out of play

In Madrid, Barcelona or Munich, millionaires attempt to kick balls into goals. The same balls are produced for just a few cents in China, India, Pakistan and Thailand. Global markets insist on ethical standards for the countries of production, and yet these very same standards threaten existences in the affected countries. For her doctoral thesis, Farah Naz examined football production in Pakistan. In this interview, she tells us why it is important to think in shades of grey, rather than in black and white.

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Patience and perseverance on the journey to entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs with Pakistani, Indian and Afghan roots are at the centre of Muhammad Zubair’s research efforts. He studies the socio-economic impact of entrepreneurs from migrant backgrounds. To this end, he set off from Pakistan to pursue his research and to work in this country.

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Wirtschaft ist soziales Handeln: Artikel untersucht die Perspektiven von Schumpeter, Veblen und Bourdieu

Der Artikel, der von Dieter Bögenhold (Institut für Soziologie) gemeinsam mit den Athenern Panayotis G. Michaelides und Theofanis Papageorgiou veröffentlicht wurde, fokussiert auf die konzeptionelle Beziehung zwischen Schumpeter, Veblen und Bordieu. Das Paper gehört mittlerweile laut RePEc, einem zentralen Index wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Arbeiten, zu den meist-downgeloadeten Werken und hat in November 2016 den vierten Platz in den Downloads aller Forschungsartikel in der Welt erreicht.

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