Dependent self-employment as a way to evade employment protection legislation

Román, Concepción; Congregado, Emilio; Millán, José María

doi:10.1007/s11187-009-9241-3

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“…Last, in terms of policy implications, the principal limitation of our research is its static nature: it reports on what is, and not on what will be. Our study suggests that if current economic and employment trends continue, older self-employers will likely become more prominent in the future, especially given the rise of the service economy and the outsourcing and downsizing trends (Gold and Fraser 2002;Román et al 2011). Of course the middle-aged of today will face different labour market choices in the future, as will those young individuals who enter middle age.…”

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Ageing and entrepreneurial preferences

2013

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Previous research on age and entrepreneurship assumed homogeneity and downplayed age-related differences in the motives and aims underlying enterprising behaviour. We argue that the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship influences how the level of entrepreneurial activity varies with age. Using a sample of 2566 respondents from 27European countries we show that entrepreneurial activity increases almost linearly with age for individuals who prefer to only employ themselves (self-employers), whereas it increases up to a critical threshold age (late 40s) and decreases thereafter for those who aspire to hire workers (owner-managers). Age has a considerably smaller effect on entrepreneurial behaviour for those who do not prefer self-employment but are pushed into it by lack of alternative employment opportunities (reluctant entrepreneurs). Our results question the conventional wisdom that entrepreneurial activity declines with age and suggest that effective 2 responses to demographic changes require policy makers to pay close attention to the heterogeneity of entrepreneurial preferences.

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Ageing and entrepreneurial preferences

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“…26 Román et al (2009) find that transitions from paid employment to -dependent‖ self-employment-when a former employee acts as a sub-contractor to a previous employer-increases with stricter protection. The share of the work force on temporary contracts and employment in staffing service firms is also on the rise virtually everywhere in Europe (Kahn 2009).…”

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Taxation, Labor Market Policy and High-Impact Entrepreneurship

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract: Public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive and highimpact entrepreneurship. High-impact entrepreneurship prospers when knowledge is successfully generated and exploited in the economy. This process depends on complementary key actors who use their competencies in what we denote a competence bloc. Although variations in economic contexts make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of relevant policy areas that affect key actors can be identified. In this paper this is done in the areas of tax policy and labor market policy. It is shown that high and/or distortive taxes and heavy labor market regulations impinge on the creation and functioning of competence blocs, thereby reducing high-impact entrepreneurship. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may

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“…These effects may, however, not be persistent over time. 4 See, for instance, Román et al (2011) for a review of earlier findings on the effects of employment protection legislation and Nyström (2014) for a review of studies that have more widely studied the effects of regulations on entrepreneurship.…”

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Habitual entrepreneurs in the making: how labour market rigidity and employment affects entrepreneurial re-entry

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2018

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We investigate the impact of country-level labour market regulations on the re-entry decision of experienced entrepreneurs, whereby they become habitual entrepreneurs. Multilevel logit models on entry decisions among 15,709 individuals in 29 European countries show that labour market regulations have a positive influence on the decision to re-enter into entrepreneurship. This positive impact is stronger among individuals holding wage jobs at the time of re-entry compared to those that do not. Our results indicate that novice and habitual entrepreneurs may respond very differently to labour market rigidity. We discuss and provide tentative explanations for these differences and outline potential policy implications.

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Dependent self-employment as a way to evade employment protection legislation

Abstract: Entrepreneurship, Self-employment, Dependency, Contracting out, Occupational choice, Labour market institutions, J24, J38, J65, K31, L24, L26,

Cited by 117 publications

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Ageing and entrepreneurial preferences

Ageing and entrepreneurial preferences

Taxation, Labor Market Policy and High-Impact Entrepreneurship

Habitual entrepreneurs in the making: how labour market rigidity and employment affects entrepreneurial re-entry

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