Mit der wachsenden Anzahl hybrider Selbstständiger verbindet sich aus sozialpolitischer Sicht die Sorge, dass sich bei ihnen Lücken in der Altersvorsorge auftun könnten. Allerdings sind hybride Erwerbsepisoden zumeist von kurzer Dauer, wenngleich sie häufig mehrfach im Erwerbsverlauf...

Mit der wachsenden Anzahl hybrider Selbstständiger verbindet sich aus sozialpolitischer Sicht die Sorge, dass sich bei ihnen Lücken in der Altersvorsorge auftun könnten. Allerdings sind hybride Erwerbsepisoden zumeist von kurzer Dauer, wenngleich sie häufig mehrfach im Erwerbsverlauf...

Recent research in economic geography and management studies has scrutinised financialization and its permeation into ‘everyday' life. In particular, studies have highlighted how government policy is transferring the responsibility of pension planning to individuals, where retirement income is...

This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...

When compared to wage earners, the take up rate of qualified retirement plans by the self-employed seems to be much lower. This paper explores the various factors that influence the observed participation and contributions to such plans. The findings show that participation declines with...

We used administrative micro panel data from the Netherlands to study the wealth effect on the transitions of workers from wage-employment to self-employment. To isolate the causal effect of wealth, we used a pension system reform in 2006 as a quasi-natural experiment. With the onset of the...

This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed visa-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...

Die Soloselbstständigkeit wird häufig mit einer prekären Wirtschaftslage der „marginalen“ Alleinunternehmer assoziiert. Eine Auswertung der Daten des Mikrozensus 2014 zeichnet jedoch ein differenziertes Bild. Es befinden sich zwar unter den Soloselbstständigen im Handwerk viele...

This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...

We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...