 Self-employment income: estimation methods, patterns, impact on distributionEnrico D'Elia and Stefania Gabriele Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2022, vol. 62, issue C, 390-398 Abstract: In the last decades, the number of self-employed workers has increased in advanced economies, also due to the diffusion of new forms of working relations, with a de facto subordinate relation. In the “gig economy” these new working relations became the new standard way of entering the labour market for the first time. Nevertheless, the estimates of self-employed income are often unsatisfactory. Most scholars and international organizations attribute to self-employed workers the same average unit compensation of employees. In this paper, we apply three alternative approaches for self-employed incomes estimation, focusing on six European economies: the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy. Our favorite method is consistent with national accounts and provides a better picture of the growth process in the last decades. It gives an overall labour share which is lower than the standard one and shows a less favorable dynamics during the 2000s in most countries. Keywords: Functional Distribution; Labour Income; Labour Cost; Self-Employed Workers (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:streco:v:62:y:2022:i:c:p:390-398 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2022.03.018 Access Statistics for this article Structural Change and Economic Dynamics is currently edited by F. Duchin, H. Hagemann, M. Landesmann, R. Scazzieri, A. Steenge and B. Verspagen More articles in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics from Elsevier |
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