Solo Self-Employment, Human Capital and Hybrid Labour in the Gig Economy

Dieter Boegenhold (), Robert Klinglmair () and Florian Kandutsch ()
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Dieter Boegenhold: Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt (Austria)
Robert Klinglmair: Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt (Austria)
Florian Kandutsch: Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt (Austria)

Foresight and STI Governance (Foresight-Russia till No. 3/2015), 2017, vol. 11, issue 4, 23-32

Abstract: In a framework of changing contextual factors, this paper deals with one-person enterprises as the smallest units of entrepreneurial companies, which already represent more than 50% of Austrian companies. Within these micro-enterprises, a special group of self-employed can be identified at the blurred boundaries between dependent work and self-employment: the hybrid solo self-employed, which are primarily operating as a sideline business. These hybrid forms enormously differ from regular entrepreneurs that perform their self-employment as their main business. Based on our own empirical survey, the paper aims to examine whether hybrid entrepreneurs are a homogeneous group or if differences exist with respect to their human capital. Our findings reveal several differences concerning for example, (dependent and self-employment) income, working hours, or one’s main workplace. it can be summarized that education matters when looking at the different aspects of hybrid self-employment activity.

Keywords: structural change; labour market; gig economy; self-employment; entrepreneurship; hybridity; human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J62 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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