The Supply Side: Identifying Workers on the Border Between Employment and Self-Employment

Ulrike Muehlberger
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Ulrike Muehlberger: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
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Chapter 4 in Dependent Self-Employment, 2007, pp 46-79 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As already stressed in the introductory chapter of this study, the rise of self-employment is closely linked to the general restructuring process in industrial organisation observed since the 1970s. Research on the determinants of self-employment suggests that the greater stress on outsourcing and numerical flexibility is important explanation for the rise of self-employment (e.g. Rubery et al. 1993;Meager 1998;OECD 2000;Eiro 2002). These developments have, moreover, been intensified by governmental efforts to foster self-employment using various regulatory tools such as the tax system or supported direct credits. Both economists and sociologists have argued that new technologies and more specialised and variable patterns of consumer demand have influenced the re-emergence of small scale businesses and network forms of production (e.g. Piore and Sabel 1984;Powell 1990;Semlinger 1991; Zagler 2003).

Keywords: Labour Market; Supply Side; Labour Market Status; British Household Panel Study; Residential Tenure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230288782_4

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