Promoting self‐employment: Does it create more employment and business activity?

Gilbert Cette and Jimmy Lopez

LABOUR, 2022, vol. 36, issue 1, 94-114

Abstract: We assess the economic impact of reforms promoting self‐employment in the countries that have implemented such reforms since the early 2000s: the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and France. To that end, we use a difference‐in‐differences approach on a cross‐country–industry panel database. Our results suggest that the reforms have raised the number of self‐employed workers, but mostly through a substitution effect between the self‐employed and employees, and not through a supply effect or a substitution effect with informal activities. This means that these reforms could have failed to achieve their main objectives.

Date: 2022
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