Self-employment and technology: different models of labor relations

Ferry Koster

Chapter 3 in Welfare States in a Turbulent Era, 2023, pp 28-47 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Self-employment and the use of new technology are generally believed to affect labor relations. This chapter brings together the technology-intensity of economies, self-employment, and labor relations by analyzing what is called the standard argumentation: new technology increases self-employment and decreases unionization. This argumentation is investigated in several ways, using a variety of indicators for self-employment, technology-intensity, and labor relations. The results show that the outcomes are not in line with what the standard argumentation suggests (or even opposing it). Besides that, it is proposed that the outcomes are better understood as a matter of clustering of countries than direct relations between technology, self-employment, and labor relations.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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