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Dependent self-employment across Europe: involuntariness, country's wealth and labor market institutions

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.contributor.authorCarrasco, Raquel
dc.contributor.authorHernanz, Virginia
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economíaes
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-26T15:41:12Z
dc.date.available2021-01-26T15:41:12Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-26
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates the degree of involuntariness in the entrepreneurial activity ofthe dependent solo self-employed, as well as the effect of the country's wealth and labormarket institutions. Using the unique information available in the 2017 European LaborForce Survey (EU-LFS) for 25 countries, we can properly identify the dependent soloself-employed and analyze to what extent they behave in accordance with anoccupational choice model when making their self-employment decision. For that, weaccount for the reasons why they enter into self-employment (voluntarily orinvoluntarily either out of necessity or requested by the former employer). The resultsindicate that involuntary self-employment, mostly due to being required by previousemployer, significantly increases the probability of being dependent solo versus nondependent self-employed. The wealthiest countries have a lower incidence of this groupof workers, mainly if they are involuntary self-employed. Moreover, labor marketinstitutions that decrease the flexibility of paid employment tend to increase theincidence of dependent solo self-employment. These results point to this group ofworkers being particularly vulnerable with the degree of vulnerability significantlyincreasing for those self-employed with a lesser degree of occupational choice.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors gratefully acknowledge research funding from "la Caixa" Social Research Projects, MINECO/FEDER Grants RTI2018-095231-B-I00, MDM 2014‐0431 and Comunidad de Madrid, MadEco‐CM (S2015/HUM‐3444)en
dc.identifier.issn2340-5031es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/31788
dc.identifier.uxxiDT/0000001865es
dc.language.isoenges
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking paper. Economicsen
dc.relation.ispartofseries21-02es
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. RTI2018-095231-B-I00es
dc.relation.projectIDComunidad de Madrid. MDM 2014‐0431es
dc.relation.projectIDComunidad de Madrid. S2015/HUM‐3444es
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.jelJ01
dc.subject.jelJ08
dc.subject.jelJ28
dc.subject.jelL24
dc.subject.jelL26
dc.subject.otherDependent Solo Self-Employeden
dc.subject.otherInvoluntarinessen
dc.subject.otherEconomic Conditionsen
dc.subject.otherLaboren
dc.titleDependent self-employment across Europe: involuntariness, country's wealth and labor market institutionsen
dc.typeworking paper*
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