Solo-Selbstständigkeit – eine prekäre Beschäftigungsform?

Karin Schulze Buschoff, Wieteke Conen and Joop Schippers

WSI-Mitteilungen, 2017, vol. 70, issue 1, 54-61

Abstract: In a comparison between the Netherlands and Germany, parallels can be identified in the structure of solo self-employment regarding the branches, level of qualification, share of women, age distribution and job satisfaction. Respondents in Germany indicate “push“ factors as motives for self-employment more often than respondents in the Netherlands, which means that the formation of a company more frequently occurs “out of necessity“. In Germany the proportion of “precarious“ solo self-employed is larger than in the Netherlands while the proportion of “economically successful“ and “secure“ is deemed smaller. The larger share of precarious solo self-employed in Germany could be due to differences in the wage structure and the social security schemes. Social security, measured by the access to and the benefits of social security schemes, is much more comprehensive in the Netherlands than in Germany.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.5771/0342-300X-2017-1-54

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