Does self-employment really raise job satisfaction? Adaptation and anticipation effects on self-employment and general job changes

Hanglberger, Dominik; Merz, Joachim

doi:10.1007/s12651-015-0175-8

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“…In a sense, there is no paradox as the selfemployed are not necessarily more satisfied in the longer term. Hanglberger and Merz's (2015) findings also support this conjecture. Furthermore, our findings question the view that individuals become self-employed not for the pecuniary rewards of self-employment, but because they enjoy the autonomy, work schedule flexibility, and the nature of work.…”

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Is Becoming Self-Employed a Panacea for Job Satisfaction? Longitudinal Evidence from Work to Self-Employment Transitions

Georgellis¹,

Yusuf²

2016

Journal of Small Business Management

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Using British longitudinal data, we investigate whether individuals enjoy a permanent boost in their job satisfaction by becoming self-employed. We track individuals before and after transitions from work to self-employment and record changes in their job and domain satisfaction scores. We find that job satisfaction follows a rising trajectory immediately upon transition into selfemployment and a declining trajectory in subsequent years, as expectations fail to materialize and the novelty of the new venture wanes down. Thus, our findings confirm that job satisfaction gains are not necessarily permanent, suggesting that self-employment is not always a panacea for job satisfaction.

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“…In a sense, there is no paradox as the self‐employed are not necessarily more satisfied in the longer term. Hanglberger and Merz's () findings also support this conjecture.…”

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Is Becoming Self-Employed a Panacea for Job Satisfaction? Longitudinal Evidence from Work to Self-Employment Transitions

Georgellis¹,

Yusuf²

2016

Journal of Small Business Management

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“…SeeShir (2016) for a more detailed exposition. 5 See for exampleBenz and Frey (2008a, b),Binder and Coad (2013),Blanchflower (2000Blanchflower ( , 2004,Block and Koellinger (2009), Coad and Binder (2014),Millán et al (2013),van Praag, Frijters and Ferrer-i-Carbonell (2003) Hanglberger and Merz (2015). found that the difference in job satisfaction of the self-employed and paid employees is the highest in the first years after self-…”

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Self-employment and well-being across institutional contexts

Fritsch

Sorgner

Wyrwich

2019

Journal of Business Venturing

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This paper investigates whether the relationship between a person's occupational status and well-being differs across countries with varying institutional contexts. We find that the relationship between job-and life satisfaction of self-employed people as well as of paid employees varies considerably across countries. Our results indicate that entrepreneurship-friendly institutions in a country are conducive to the well-being of self-employed. Remarkably, the quality of entrepreneurial institutions also increases the levels of well-being of paid employees, but the effect is more pronounced for the self-employed.

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“…That is, our results offer the following nuanced view (Hanglberger and Merz 2015): few benefits in terms of life satisfaction arise, and the benefits for work satisfaction may come at the cost of decreased individual satisfaction in the important life domain of leisure. Hence, in addition to the lower, more skewed, and more volatile monetary compensation for selfemployed work than for work in paid employment (Hamilton 2000), self-employment is also accompanied by a persistent decline in leisure satisfaction.…”

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The Pleasures and Pains of Self-Employment: A Panel Data Analysis of Satisfaction with Life, Work, and Leisure

2015

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Does self-employment really raise job satisfaction? Adaptation and anticipation effects on self-employment and general job changes

Cited by 40 publications

References 41 publications

Is Becoming Self-Employed a Panacea for Job Satisfaction? Longitudinal Evidence from Work to Self-Employment Transitions

Is Becoming Self-Employed a Panacea for Job Satisfaction? Longitudinal Evidence from Work to Self-Employment Transitions

Self-employment and well-being across institutional contexts

The Pleasures and Pains of Self-Employment: A Panel Data Analysis of Satisfaction with Life, Work, and Leisure

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