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Work after retirement in Italy : evidence from merged survey data and administrative records

Boscolo, Stefano; Bottazzi, Renata; Conti, Riccardo; … - 2026

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Dolado, Juan J.; Jáñez, Álvaro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2025

Online food delivery platforms typically operate through a controversial business model that relies on subcontracting self-employed workers, known as riders. We quantify the labor-market effects of the Spanish Riders' Law in 2021 that established the presumption of dependent employment for...

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Riders on the storm

Dolado, Juan J.; Jáñez, Alvaro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2025

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Riders on the Storm

Dolado, Juan J.; Janez, Alvaro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2025

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Work after retirement in Italy : evidence from merged data survey and administrative records

Boscolo, Stefano; Bottazzi, Renata; Conti, Riccardo; … - 2025

This paper explores the labour market participation of Italian pensioners between 2004 and 2017, exploiting a novel dataset that combines administrative and survey data. In line with official statistics, about 10% of pensioners in our data also engage in paid employment. We characterise these...

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Material deprivation, institutional trust, and mental well-being : evidence from self-employed Europeans

Majoor-Kozlinska, Inna - 2025

Material deprivation, defined as the inability to afford essential goods and services, is a key determinant of psychological well-being across Europe. While prior research links deprivation to lower well-being and diminished institutional trust, few or no studies to date have examined how trust...

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Unemployment protection for self-employed persons and platform workers in Austria

Pfalz, Thomas - 2024

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Coverage for platform workers and the self-employed in case of unemployment in Switzerland : access to protection and ways of improvement

Magoga-Sabatier, Sabrine - 2024

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What are the factors that most influence the formation of workers' labor values in order to achieve sustainable development in Latin America?

López-Concepción, Arelys; Gil-Lacruz, Ana I.; … - 2024

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Impact of selected regional indicators on the proportion of successful self-employers and new self-employers at the district level of Slovakia

Kalafutová, Anna; Belardi, Jan - 2024

Self-employment support can be analysed in the context of labour market or self-employment sustainability. However, it is also useful to see how regional factors can affect the share of the supported self-employed in all new self-employed at the time of the start of selfemployment. The aim of...

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Nur ein Bruchteil der Selbstständigen in Deutschland sorgt nicht für das Alter vor

Kritikos, Alexander; Priem, Maximilian; Sohrweide, … - 2026

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Sorgen und Belastungen während und nach der Corona-Krise : (Solo-)Selbstständige (und) Frauen besonders stark betroffen

Schulze Buschoff, Karin; Peters, Eileen; Müller, Bjarne - 2026

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Untersuchung der sozialen Lage von Selbstständigen in Deutschland

Pöhler, Anne-Christin; Priem, Maximilian; Cuccu, Liliana; … - 2026

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Ripple effect of gig work : how hands-on experience and networks shape future female entrepreneurs

Alshebami, Ali Saleh; Fazal, Syed Ali; Amin, Mohammad Bin; … - 2026

The rapid growth of the gig economy is reshaping traditional employment structures, creating new pathways for entrepreneurial activities, especially for women. Female entrepreneurship has always been a trending issue worldwide, particularly in developing conservative societies where females face...

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Hybrid entrepreneurship : navigating traditional employment while launching startups through a constructivist grounded theory approach

Dost, Mir - 2026

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Road to recovery: self-employed on the mend?

Blackburn, Robert A.; Machin, Stephen; Ventura, Maria - 2026

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Nur ein Bruchteil der Selbstständigen in Deutschland sorgt nicht für das Alter vor

Kritikos, Alexander; Priem, Maximilian; Sohrweide, … - 2026

Eine Rentenversicherungspflicht für Selbstständige steht immer wieder im Mittelpunkt der politischen Diskussion. Dabei wird das Bild der "schutzbedürftigen Solo-Selbstständigen" gezeichnet, die im Alter dem Sozialstaat zur Last fallen. Die empirische Basis über die Altersabsicherung von...

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Immigrant business owner activity in the pandemic and recovery

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2026

The paper provides a descriptive analysis of both the early impacts of COVID on business activity among immigrants and the economic recovery over the next few years. The findings indicate that immigrant business owners were disproportionately affected by COVID in the first month of the pandemic...

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Immigrant business owner activity in the pandemic and recovery

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2026

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Tax disincentives to formal employment in Latin America

Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Rivera, David - 2026

Tax-benefit systems in Latin America have expanded alongside social protection, yet persistently high informality continues to constrain fiscal capacity and redistribution. This paper examines how tax policy changes affect formal employment in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador over three periods...

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The impact of gender on tax compliance in Southern Albania

Dervishaj, Blerina; Gropa, Melaize - 2026

We examine whether gender influences formal tax compliance among self-employed taxpayers in Southern Albania-focusing on two observable behaviors: paying taxes on time and the amount of unpaid tax debt (arrears). The study does not examine tax evasion or tax avoidance, as these behaviors cannot...

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SOEP-Core - 2024 : SOEP-LEE2 self-employed persons (with reference to variables)

2026

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SOEP-Core v41 – SELFEMPL : self-employed survey data

2026

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Research on the shadow economy and assessment of is scale : on the example of Kazakhstan

Mergenbaeva, Aziza Tojmachambetovna; Nurasheva, Kulyanda; … - 2026

The manuscript aims to assess the scale of shadow economic processes within the non-observed economy, focusing on the self-employment sector, which is insufficiently reflected in national statistics. The research methodology includes an analysis of the conceptual foundations of the shadow...

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The Declining Local Bias of Entrepreneurship in the United States

Colaiacovo, Innessa; Dalton, Margaret G.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2026

Multiple studies document a local bias of entrepreneurship (LBE) in recent decades, where self-employed entrepreneurs are systematically more likely than wage workers to operate in their region of birth. This paper documents an important new fact: the LBE has been declining in the United States...

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The declining local bias of entrepreneurship in the United States

Colaiacovo, Innessa; Dalton, Margaret; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; … - 2026

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Aligning resources for productivity : a synthesis of TPI research 2023-2026

O'Mahony, Mary; Ark, Bart van - 2026

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Skills, organisations and worker engagement : summary of people research programme

Grimshaw, Damian; O'Mahony, Mary; Rafferty, Anthony - 2026

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Purpose-led career change and well-being : the experience of midlife women

Smit, Miryam; Malik, Sumaira - 2026

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How does private pension saving change for workers moving from employee jobs into self-employment?

Cribb, Jonathan; O'Brien, Laurence - 2026

Persistently low rates of private pension participation among the self-employed have led to increased policy focus on how to boost pension saving among this group. In this report, we use newly linked administrative data to evaluate how private pension saving changes for employees who move into...

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From training to self-employment : evidence from youth agricultural programmes in Cameroon and Madagascar

Zucchini, Emanuele; Sadania, Clémentine; Steiner, Susan; … - 2026

Youth employment remains a critical issue in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines the impact of two large-scale governmental programmes in Cameroon and Madagascar that aim to promote self-employment in agriculture. Youth participated in vocational training and received technical support,...

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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023

This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...

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Estimating Returns to Schooling and Experience: A History of Thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023

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Estimating Returns to Schooling and Experience: A History of Thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023

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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023

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Riders on the storm

Dolado, Juan J.; Jáñez, Alvaro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2025

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Riders on the Storm

Dolado, Juan J.; Jáñez, Álvaro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2025

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Umfrage: Ein Jahr Corona-Krise aus Sicht der Selbstständigen

Stiel, Caroline; Kritikos, Alexander; Block, Jörn; … - 2025

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"I'd like to make a proper go of it but it's really scary" : the perpetual liminality of informally self-employed women as stigmatized entrepreneurs

Jones, Sally; Nadin, Sara - 2025

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Gender, self-employment and motivational factors in a Slovak context

Mazúrová, Barbora; Kollár, Ján; Knapková, Miroslava; … - 2025

The aim of this article is to examine and analyze the relationship between gender motivation for self-employment in the Slovak Republic. The article examines potential differences in motivational factors for entering self-employment between men and women based on 13 motivational factors, which...

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Hybrid labour : measuring, classifying, and representing workers at the boundaries of employment and self-employment

2025

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Hybrid labour : measuring, classifying, and representing workers at the boundaries of employment and self-employment

2025

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The landscape of self-employment in India : trends, constraints, and policy prescriptions

Afridi, Farzana - 2025

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The landscape of self-employment in India : trends, constraints and policy prescriptions

Afridi, Farzana - 2025

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Experiences of women and minoritized US military veteran business owners: descriptive evidence on "vetrepreneur" survival and growth

Deming, Kristopher; Carpenter, Craig Wesley; Anders, John - 2025

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Religiosity and entrepreneurship : women entrepreneurs in Turkiye

Ozasir Kacar, Sibel - 2025

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Female representation and talent allocation in entrepreneurship : the role of early exposure to entrepreneurs

Mertz, Mikkel; Ronchi, Maddalena; Salvestrini, Viola - 2025

This paper shows that exposure to entrepreneurs during adolescence increases women's entry and performance in entrepreneurship and improves the allocation of talent in the economy. Using population-wide registry data from Denmark, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school, cross-cohort variation in...

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Female representation and talent allocation in entrepreneurship : the role of early exposure to entrepreneurs

Mertz, Mikkel; Ronchi, Maddalena; Salvestrini, Viola - 2025

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Problem or opportunity? : immigration, job search, entrepreneurship and labor market outcomes of natives in Germany

Iftikhar, Zainab; Zaharieva, Anna - 2025

In this study we evaluate the effects of low-skilled immigration on small businesses, wages and employment in Germany. We develop a search and matching model with heterogeneous workers, cross-skill matching, and endogenous entry into entrepreneurship. The model is calibrated using German...

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Problem or opportunity? : immigration, job search, entrepreneurship and labor market outcomes of natives in Germany

Iftikhar, Zainab; Zaharieva, Anna - 2024

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Problem or opportunity? : immigration, job search, entrepreneurship and labor market outcomes of natives in Germany

Iftikhar, Zainab; Zaharieva, Anna - 2024

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Update on the entry into and exit from self-employment and business ownership in Canada

Liu, Huju; Zhang, Yan - 2025

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Working at the boundaries : an introduction to solo self-employment

Murgia, Annalisa - 2025

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A statistical portrait of the workers at the boundaries of employment and self-employment in Europe : who are they and what do they do?

Bozzon, Rossella - 2025

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Regulating labour at the border between employment and self-employment : an enduring challenge

Digennaro, Pierluigi - 2025

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Hybrid Cooperatives : an alternative to self-employment ensuring autonomy, security, and solidarity

Mondon-Navazo, Mathilde; Borghi, Paolo; Piro, Valeria - 2025

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Hybrid practices of organising how workers mobilise between employment and self-employment

Piro, Valeria; Bottalico, Andrea; Mezihorák, Petr; … - 2025

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SOEP-Core v39 - SELFEMPL : self-employed survey data

2025

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Micro studies on self-employment, housing and pensions

Li, Yue - 2025

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Technological progress and the dynamics of self-employment : worker-level evidence for Europe

Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle; Milasi, Santo; … - 2025

In this article, we examine how technology is associated with self-employment dynamics using worker-level data from 30 European countries. We find that, while employees exposed to labour-augmenting technologies are more likely to move from paid employment to solo self-employment and vice-versa,...

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Technological progress and the dynamics of self-employment : worker-level evidence for Europe

Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle; Milasi, Santo; … - 2023

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All the same? - Job quality and heterogeneity among the self-employed

Sauer, Petra; Schwarz, Anna; Hofbauer, Johanna - 2025

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Hybrid entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs' well-being : the moderating effect of role demands outside entrepreneurship

Kuske, Johanna; Schulz, Matthias; Schwens, Christian - 2025

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Decline in job satisfaction and how it relates to investment decisions of the self-employed

Block, Jörn; Gnad, Miriam Isabell; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2025

Despite substantial research on job satisfaction in self-employment, we know little about the specific consequences for the venture when job satisfaction declines after an external shock. Taking the COVID-19 pandemic as an example of an external shock and drawing on a sample of nearly 7,000...

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Decline in job satisfaction and how it relates to investment decisions of the self-employed

Block, Jörn; Gnad, Miriam Isabell; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2025

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Decline in job satisfaction and how it relates to investment decisions of the self-employed

Block, Jörn; Gnad, Miriam Isabell; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2025

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