Does self-employment really raise job satisfaction?: adaptation and anticipation effects on self-employment and general job changes (Erhöht eine Selbständigkeit wirklich die Arbeitszufriedenheit?: Adaptions- und Antizipationseffekte der Selbständigkeit und genereller Arbeitsplatzwechsel)

Dominik Hanglberger and Joachim Merz
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Dominik Hanglberger: Leuphana University Lüneburg

Journal for Labour Market Research, 2015, vol. 48, issue 4, 287-303

Abstract: "Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for the self-employed than for employees. We argue that by neglecting anticipation and adaptation effects estimates in previous studies might be misleading. To test this, we specify models accounting for anticipation and adaptation to self-employment and general job changes. In contrast to recent literature we find no specific long-term effect of self-employment on job satisfaction. Accounting for anticipation and adaptation to job changes in general, which includes changes between employee jobs, reduces the effect of self-employment on job satisfaction by two-thirds. When controlling for anticipation and adaptation to job changes, we find a positive anticipation effect of self-employment and a positive effect of self-employment on job satisfaction in the first years of self-employment. After 3 years, adaptation eliminates the higher satisfaction of being self-employed. According to our results, previous studies overestimate the positive long-term effects of self-employment on job satisfaction." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; berufliche Selbständigkeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Determinanten; Arbeitsplatzwechsel; Arbeitszufriedenheit; 1984-2009 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J28 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06-16
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