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Independent or Dependent? European Labour Statistics and Their (In)ability to Identify Forms of Dependency in Self-employment
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Abstract In the studies on labour market change and transformation of employment relations, the growth of new forms of self-employment, including platform work, has raised a broad debate about how to define, classify, and analyse the wide range of positions within the heterogeneous category of self-employed ... view more
In the studies on labour market change and transformation of employment relations, the growth of new forms of self-employment, including platform work, has raised a broad debate about how to define, classify, and analyse the wide range of positions within the heterogeneous category of self-employed workers. This article analyses the emergent methodologies used in European comparative labour statistics to identify forms of dependency in self-employment. Using the 6th wave of the 2015 European Working Condition Survey and the 2017 ad hoc module on self-employment from the European Labour Force Survey, this article discusses how the representation of dependent self-employment changes by adopting a different operationalization of economic and operational dependency. Findings show how different indicators of dependency change the representation of self-employment in different economic sectors, affecting our understanding of the transformation of working arrangements within self-employment and the boundaries between employment and self-employment.... view less
Keywords
self-employment; dependence; economic dependence; economic sector; self-employed person
Classification
Labor Market Research
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Free Keywords
Dependent self-employment; Dependent contractors; Economic dependency; Operational dependency; 2015 European Working Condition Survey (EWCS); 2017 ad hoc module on self-employment from the European Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 199-226
Journal
Social Indicators Research, 160 (2022) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02798-1
ISSN
1573-0921
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed