Dependent self-employed individuals: are they different from paid employees?

Ondřej Dvouletý; Dagmara Nikulin

doi:10.1108/er-11-2022-0502

Dependent self-employed individuals: are they different from paid employees?

Abstract

This study focuses on dependent self-employment, which covers a situation where a person works for the same employer as a typical worker while on a self-employment contractual basis, i.e., without a traditional employment contract and without certain rights granted to "regular" employees. The research exploits the individual-level dataset of 35 European countries extracted from the 2017 edition of the European Labour Force Survey and compares the characteristics of employees and dependent self-employed individuals. Methodologically, the study relies on the estimation of a multivariate logistic regression model. The main hypothesis assuming that dependent self-employed work most often in low-skilled occupations was empirically supported. There was also a non-linear (u-shaped) relationship between the years of accumulated experience (with a turning point at 35 years) and the likelihood of being dependent self-employed. Other results showed that dependent self-employed are less likely to be women, and they are more likely born outside of the countries where they participate in the labour markets. The study contributes to the field by adopting a comparable definition of dependent self-employment and exploiting the recent theoretical support of The Work Precarity Framework. The phenomenon should still be addressed by policymakers and labour office representatives, aiming to protect, primarily, vulnerable lower-skilled workers. The ongoing research should study the longitudinal dimension of dependent self-employment with a focus on motivational aspects.

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Ondřej Dvouletý
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Keywords

DEPENDENT SELF-EMPLOYMENT, HETEROGENEITY OF ENTREPRENEURS, BOGUS, FAKE, FALSE, SHAM, PSEUDO OR INVOLUNTARY SELF-EMPLOYED

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Employee Relations no. 45, pages 704 - 720,
ISSN: 0142-5455

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English

Publication year:

2023

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Dvouletý O., Nikulin D.: Dependent self-employed individuals: are they different from paid employees?// Employee Relations -Vol. 45,iss. 3 (2023), s.704-720

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