THE CREATION OF JOBS FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF INDIVIDUALS OVER 40 YEARS OLD: THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The present work aims to examine the employment status of people older than forty years old and describes the role of the entrepreneur who starts up his/her business being older than the above mentioned age. Additionally, this manuscript explores whether the start- up of microenterprises can be considered a carrier opportunity for those people, who are usually quite against because of their age, despite they may develop a successful carrier both, as a self-employee or working for a company. Finally, it is worth mentioning this research was developed because of the goal fixed by the European Union in increasing the labour activity rate of older people in a 50 per cent by 2010.