"Analysing the British Labour Force Survey, we highlight that dependent self-employed workers constitute a group distinct from both employees and independent self-employed workers in the labour market group. Dependent self-employed workers show characteristics of a more volatile labour market...

Analysing the British Labour Force Survey, we highlight that dependent self-employed workers constitute a group distinct from both employees and independent self-employed workers in the labour market group. Dependent self-employed workers show characteristics of a more volatile labour market...

Die Transformation hierarchischer betrieblicher Steuerung in relationalen Vertrags- und Tauschbeziehungen hat in vielen europäischen Ländern zu einer Zunahme abhängiger Selbständigkeit geführt. Aufgrund des Graubereichs zwischen selbständiger und unselbständiger Beschäftigung stellen...

In Österreich wurde 1993 ein steuerfinanziertes Pflegegeld eingeführt. Zwischen 1994 und 2006 stieg die Anzahl der PflegegeldbezieherInnen um rund 25%. Die Finanzierung der Pflege älterer Menschen sowie die effiziente Gestaltung der Pflegeleistungen sind nicht zuletzt vor dem Hintergrund des...

For the last ten years, the Austrian labour market has been characterised by an increasing number of legal changes, especially in the area of social security law, leading to a diversification of labour market forms. Seen in a European context, the various structures encompassing the labour...

International examples clearly demonstrate that a high level of social policy does not necessarily correlate with slow growth rates. Empirical literature shows that incentives of social policy measures that lead to a growth-enhancing education, research and development policy are of utmost...

Study conducted for the European Parliament, Bonn 2010 (135 pages)

"Analysing the British Labour Force Survey, we highlight that dependent self-employed workers constitute a group distinct from both employees and independent self-employed workers in the labour market group. Dependent self-employed workers show characteristics of a more volatile labour market...