Self Employment and its Support in EU Member States – Slovakia in International Comparison Cover Image

Samozamestnávanie a jeho podpora v krajinách Európskej únie – Slovensko v medzinárodnom porovnaní
Self Employment and its Support in EU Member States – Slovakia in International Comparison

Author(s): Ján Košta, Vilma Juríčková
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: SAV - Slovenská akadémia vied - Ekonomický ústav SAV a Prognostický ústav SAV
Keywords: self-employment; start-ups; business support services

Summary/Abstract: The important share in employment both in old and new EU member states is represented by the self-employers. The self-employment in the advanced econo-mies has become more and more the demonstration of utilization of business opportunities and has let up to be the demonstration of necessity resulted from the threatened unemployment. The article briefly analyzes development of self-employment in those selected EU countries that simultaneously run the support programmes of self-employment and compares the expenditures on start-up programmes of self-employers in Slovakia and in these selected countries. In addition the article brings the actual knowledge from the EU advanced countries on the programmes and services for beginning entrepreneurs that could be exploited in Slovakia.

  • Issue Year: 54/2006
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 1009-1023
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Slovak
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