Own-account workers in Europe: Flexible, mobile, and often inadequately insured
The European Union is currently experiencing a kind of 'renaissance of selfemployment'. As part of this trend, the share of self-employed workers who are operating their enterprises without the support of dependent employees is growing particularly evidently. Members of this category of self-employed are known as 'ownaccount workers'. Proceeding from the theory of transitional labour markets, the authors develop a concept with which mobility rates and mobility patterns can be used to compare the dynamics of own-account work (entries, exits and duration) in five different European countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, United Kingdom and occasionally Sweden). Against this background, the insurance coverage offered to the self-employed as well as that enjoyed by persons entering or exiting the status of selfemployment are then observed and compared across the different countries.
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2006
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Authors: | Schulze Buschoff, Karin ; Schmidt, Claudia |
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Berlin : Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) |
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freely available
Series: | WZB Discussion Paper ; SP I 2006-122 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | hdl:10419/43960 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:wzblpe:SPI2006122 [RePEc] |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303989
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