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To what extent are the self-employed satisfied? A focus on involuntariness and forms of dependency in Europe

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ID21545174
AuthorsRossella Bozzon (0000-0001-8532-9507, corresponding author)
Year2023
Issue165
Pages201-223
Publication date2023-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociologia del Lavoro (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0392-5048 • E-ISSN: 1972-554X
PublisherFranco Angeli (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3280/sl2023-165010
OpenAlexW4383888769
LanguageEN
References cited34

This article aims to investigate how job satisfaction varies for different types of self-employment classified on the basis of working conditions – genuine vs. dependent – and the motivation to enter self-employment – voluntary vs. involuntary – in different institutional contexts. First, it analyses how job satisfaction is affected by the cumulative experience of different forms of economic and operational dependency, and by the involuntariness of entering self-employment. Second, it studies how differences in job satisfaction between types of self-employment are modulated by the country's entrepreneurship support environment. The analyses are based on the 2017 ad-hoc module on self-employment of the EU-LFS. Results show that the negative consequences of being self-employed on an involuntary basis, the accumulation of forms of dependency, and the lack of business opportunities all influence the job satisfaction of the self-employed without employees and small entrepreneurs

Business · Demographic economics · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Job satisfaction · Management · Post hoc · Self employed · Self-employment · Turnover · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Medicine · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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