It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down oors …

Due to the pandemic-induced economic crisis, self-employed individuals are currently suering considerable income losses …. The self-employed and the members in their households usually form an economic unit. As a consequence, the income cuts not …) to calculate how much income the selfemployed are able to sacrice to achieve a subjective barely sucient household income …