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The importance of being in control of business : work satisfaction of employers, own-account workers and employees
Hessels, Jolanda; Millán Morera de la Vall, José María; … - 2015 - This version: April 2015
from own-account workers within the group of self-employed using data from the ECHP for 14 European countries. Our findings …
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Determinants of job satisfaction across the EU-15 : a comparison of self-employed and paid employees
Millán Morera de la Vall, José María; Hessels, Jolanda; … - 2011 - Version: January 2011
Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011383255
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Determinants of Job Satisfaction across the EU-15: A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees
Millan, Jose Maria; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; … - 2011
Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325936
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Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - 2010
Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self … of data often is insufficient and difficult to access due to language barriers. We present an analysis of Swedish self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320292
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The short-term effect of COVID-19 on self-employed workers in Canada
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020
Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239333
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Canadian small businesses' employees and owners during COVID-19
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020
Canadian employers are largely small businesses. Their relevance for job creation and labour demand is integral for policymakers concerned with adverse labour market outcomes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS) we document how the self-employed,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268428
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Types of institutions and well-being of self-employed and paid employees in Europe
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019
This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship- facilitating entry … countries measured by data from EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). We find that institutions never …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011999971
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Types of institutions and well-being of self-employed and paid employees in Europe
Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019
This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship-facilitating entry conditions … countries measured by data from EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). We find that institutions never …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006084
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The effects of COVID-19 on U.S. small businesses: evidence from owners, managers, and employees
Alekseev, Georgij; Amer, Safaa; Gopal, Manasa; Kuchler, … - 2020
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291877
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Being your own boss and bossing others: the moderating effect of managing others on work meaning and autonomy for the self-employed and employees
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N.; Boudreaux, … - 2021
We examine the moderating role of being a supervisor for meaning and autonomy of self-employed and employed workers. We rely on regression analysis applied after entropy balancing based on a nationally representative dataset of over 80,000 individuals in 30 European countries for 2005, 2010, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745220