To what extent do policies contribute to selfemployment? / Mark Baker, Balázs Égert, Gabor Fulop, Annabelle Mourougane

Égert, Balázs [VerfasserIn] ; Fulop, Gabor [VerfasserIn] ; Mourougane, Annabelle [VerfasserIn]

Englisch

Paris, France : OECD, 2018

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Zusammenfassung in französischer Sprache

DOI: 10.1787/74c044b1-en

*Economics

Selbstständige / Zeitreihenanalyse / OECD-Staaten / 2005 - 2017

Amtsdruckschrift / Government document

Journal of Economic Literature: C23

Journal of Economic Literature: J40

Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by age, skill and gender. The generosity of unemployment benefits, and to a lesser extent, spending on active labour market policies appear to be robust determinants of the long-term share of self-employed in European countries. No significant relation is found between the stringency of employment protection and aggregate self-employment. However, there are significant, and oppositely signed, impacts on high- and low-skilled self-employed separately. Both the tax wedge and the minimum wage appear to be positively related to the share of self-employed in the long term, but the relation holds for some categories of workers only.

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