IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/wzblpe/spi2006122.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Own-account workers in Europe: Flexible, mobile, and often inadequately insured

Author

Listed:
  • Schulze Buschoff, Karin
  • Schmidt, Claudia

Abstract

The European Union is currently experiencing a kind of 'renaissance of selfemployment'. As part of this trend, the share of self-employed workers who are operating their enterprises without the support of dependent employees is growing particularly evidently. Members of this category of self-employed are known as 'ownaccount workers'. Proceeding from the theory of transitional labour markets, the authors develop a concept with which mobility rates and mobility patterns can be used to compare the dynamics of own-account work (entries, exits and duration) in five different European countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, United Kingdom and occasionally Sweden). Against this background, the insurance coverage offered to the self-employed as well as that enjoyed by persons entering or exiting the status of selfemployment are then observed and compared across the different countries.

Suggested Citation

  • Schulze Buschoff, Karin & Schmidt, Claudia, 2006. "Own-account workers in Europe: Flexible, mobile, and often inadequately insured," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2006-122, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:wzblpe:spi2006122
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/43960/1/52534506X.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Schulze Buschoff, Karin, 2004. "Neue Selbstständigkeit und wachsender Grenzbereich zwischen selbstständiger und abhängiger Erwerbsarbeit: Europäische Trends vor dem Hintergrund sozialpolitischer und arbeitsrechtlicher Entwicklungen," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2004-108, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    2. Neugart, Michael, 2006. "Labor market policy evaluation with an agent-based model," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2006-113, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    3. Stenberg, Anders, 2006. "Skill needs and continuing vocational training in Sweden," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2006-109, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    4. Niels Bosma & Sander Wennekers, 2004. "Entrepreneurial Attitudes Versus Entrepreneurial Activities (GEM)," Scales Research Reports A200316, EIM Business and Policy Research.
    5. Lindskog, Magnus, 2005. "The Swedish social insurance system for the self-employed," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2005-103, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    6. Brzinsky-Fay, Christian, 2006. "Lost in transition: labour market entry sequences of school leavers in Europe," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2006-111, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    7. Fachinger, Uwe & Oelschläger, Angelika, 2000. "Selbständige und ihre Altersvorsorge: Sozialpolitischer Handlungsbedarf?," MPRA Paper 1127, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    8. de Koning, Jaap & Kroes, Hassel & van der Steen, Alex, 2006. "Patterns of work and use of benefits over the life course: Estimates and simulations based on Dutch microdata," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2006-112, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    9. Sander Wennekers & Jolanda Hessels & Chantal Hartog, 2009. "Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2008 The Netherlands," Scales Research Reports A200914, EIM Business and Policy Research.
    10. Fachinger, Uwe, 2003. "Selbständige in der EU: Einige Anmerkungen zu den Problemen ihrer sozialen Absicherung," MPRA Paper 1129, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    11. Boden, Rebecca, 2005. "The UK social security system for self-employed people," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2005-104, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Schulze Buschoff, Karin, 2007. "Self-employment and social risk management: Comparing Germany and the United Kingdom," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2007-103, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    2. Schulze Buschoff, Karin & Schmidt, Claudia, 2007. "Adapting labour law and social security to the needs of the new self-employed: Comparing European countries and initiatives at EU level," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2007-113, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    3. Müller, Kai-Uwe, 2007. "Observed and unobserved determinants of unemployment insurance benefit sanctions in Germany: Evidence from matched individual and regional administrative data," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2007-107, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    4. Kemmerling, Achim, 2007. "The end of work or work without end? The role of voters' beliefs in shaping policies of early exit," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2007-108, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    5. Michael Neugart, 2009. "Pensions with early retirement and without commitment," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(3), pages 257-260.
    6. Schömann, Klaus & Siarov, Liuben & van den Heuvel, Nick, 2006. "Managing social risks through transitional labour markets," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2006-117, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    7. Lassen, Morten & Sørensen, John Houman & Lindkvist Jørgensen, Anja & Møberg, Rasmus Juul, 2006. "Skill needs and the institutional framework: Conditions for enterprise-sponsored CVT - The case of Denmark," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2006-121, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    8. Hartlapp, Miriam & Falkner, Gerda, 2008. "Problems of operationalization and data in EU compliance research," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2008-104, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    9. Leschke, Janine, 2007. "Gender differences in unemployment insurance coverage: A comparative analysis," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2007-106, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    10. Wotschack, Philip & Hildebrandt, Eckart, 2007. "Long-term working-time accounts and life-course policies: Preliminary results of a representative company survey," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Labor Market Policy and Employment SP I 2007-109, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    11. Schulze Buschoff, Karin & Schmidt, Claudia, 2005. "Mobilität der Solo-Selbständigen im europäischen Vergleich (The employment status mobility of the solo-self-employed and their social protection in a European comparison)," Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for Labour Market Research, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], vol. 38(4), pages 531-553.
    12. Schulze Buschoff, Karin & Schmidt, Claudia, 2005. "Mobilität der Solo-Selbständigen im europäischen Vergleich (The employment status mobility of the solo-self-employed and their social protection in a European comparison)," Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for Labour Market Research, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], vol. 38(4), pages 531-553.
    13. André van Stel & Sander Wennekers & Jolanda Hessels & Chantal Hartog, 2011. "Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2010 The Netherlands," Scales Research Reports A201108, EIM Business and Policy Research.
    14. Bögenhold, Dieter & Fachinger, Uwe, 2012. "Unternehmertum: Unterschiedliche Facetten selbstständiger Berufstätigkeit [Entrepreneurship: Diverse aspects of self-employment]," MPRA Paper 51459, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    15. Moreno Baruffini, 2013. "An agent-based simulation of the Swiss labour market : an alternative for the labour market policy evaluation," ERSA conference papers ersa13p216, European Regional Science Association.
    16. Berndt Keller & Hartmut Seifert, 2005. "Atypical Employment and Flexicurity," management revue - Socio-Economic Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 16(3), pages 304-323.
    17. Marija Krūmiņa & Anders Paalzow, 2011. "Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2011 Latvia Report," Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), Latvia report 2011, Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS);Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga).
    18. Niels Bosma & Kashifa Suddle & Veronique Schutjens, 2008. "Whither a flat ladscape? Regional differences in Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands," Scales Research Reports H200805, EIM Business and Policy Research.
    19. Sander Wennekers & Jolanda Hessels & Chantal Hartog, 2009. "Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2008 The Netherlands," Scales Research Reports A200914, EIM Business and Policy Research.
    20. van Teeffelen Lex & Uhlaner Lorraine M., 2013. "Firm Resource Characteristics and Human Capital as Predictors of Exit Choice: An Exploratory Study of SMEs," Entrepreneurship Research Journal, De Gruyter, vol. 3(1), pages 84-108, January.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:zbw:wzblpe:spi2006122. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/wzbbbde.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.