Self-Employment and Well-Being Across Institutional Contexts

Michael Fritsch (), Alina Sorgner and Michael Wyrwich

No 2018-005, Jena Economics Research Papers from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Abstract: This paper investigates whether the relationship between a person's occupational sta- tus 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.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; institutions; well-being; life satisfaction; job satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D01 D91 I31 L26 P51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-03-28
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