Evaluation of Self-Employment Development Factors: Latvian Case

• Authors: Rita Remeikiene
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The factors that have the impact on selfemployment development have been identified and ranked by importance applying method of expert evaluation. Selfemployment start-up is promoted by the increasing demand in foreign markets, export and lack of competences for all activities while the main barriers are unfavourable economics and institutional environment.

Keywords

EN

Macroeconomic factors of self-employment; selfemployment; self-employment barriers; self-employment development

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Economics and Business
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5-11

Dates

published

2015-08-01

online

2015-11-05

Contributors

author

Rita Remeikiene

• Mykolas Romeris University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/eb-2015-0001