Minimum Wages and the Rise in Solo Self-Employment

Ganserer, Angelika; Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4114868

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“…On the other hand, more recent research, using panel data and restricted to German industries, suggests that the introduction of a minimum wage has led to a substantial increase in the share of own-account self-employment, with the extent of the rise varying across industries and regions. In their model, Ganserer, Gregory and Zierahn (2022) show that a high minimum wage induces a decline in both the demand and wage-compensation for dependent high-skilled employment, which, in turn, gives these workers an incentive to enter own-account self-employment.…”

Section: Labour Market Policies and Institutionsmentioning

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The labour market and tax policy drivers of self‐employment: New evidence from Europe

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MOUROUGANE

2024

International Labour Review

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Using cross‐country time series panel regressions for 1995‐2022, this article seeks to identify the main labour market and tax policies affecting self‐employment in European OECD countries. It uncovers heterogeneous policy impacts for different forms of self‐employment and considers how the share of self‐employment correlates with changes in policies along dimensions including sex, age and skills. Minimum wages and employment protection legislation appear to be robustly associated with changes in the long‐term share of own‐account self‐employment, whereas the share of self‐employment with employees appears to coincide with changes in the tax wedge and unemployment benefits. Deindustrialization is found to be positively correlated with self‐employment, which exhibits some cyclical properties.

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Section: Labour Market Policies and Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%