Research Handbook on Self-Employment and Public Policy

Edited by Wieteke Conen, Senior Researcher, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Enrico Reuter, Senior Lecturer in Public and Social Policy, School for Business and Society, University of York, UK

‘Self-employment is here to stay in today's labour market. At the same time, in its present form, it is also a relatively new phenomenon, about which knowledge is only gradually becoming available. The Research Handbook on Self-Employment and Public Policy discusses a wide range of topics around the theme of self-employment in a clear manner, providing an up-to-date and accurate picture of existing knowledge in this area.’

• Contents1 Introduction to Research Handbook on Self-employment and PublicPolicy: shifting patterns and policy issues 1Wieteke Conen and Enrico ReuterPART I PATTERNS AND QUALITY OF SELF-EMPLOYED WORK2 Growth dynamics of solo and employer start-ups during the businessformation stage 30Jerzy Cieślik, José María Millan and André van Stel3 Multiple jobholding among the self-employed—trends and implicationsof hybrid entrepreneurship for public policy 49Saidaminkhon Alyavi and Matthias Schulz4 Uncovering heterogeneity: job quality and well-being among theEuropean self-employed 66Jessie Gevaert5 Poverty, inequality and material deprivation among the self-employedin Europe 80Jeroen Horemans and Ive Marx6 Self-employment in low- and middle-income countries: implications forpublic policy 99Shuting Xia, Iyeyinka Kusi-Mensah, Francis Annor and Brendan BurchellPART II UNDERREPRESENTED AND DISADVANTAGED GROUPSIN CONTEXT7 Combining work and family: the self-employed between autonomy andwork demand 118Mia Tammelin, Milla Salin and Katri Otonkorpi-Lehtoranta8 Women, children, and self-employment cross-nationally: dowork-family policy contexts matter? 134Michelle J. Budig and Misun Lim9 Female self-employment in India: informality, low pay, andintersectional disadvantages 155Tulika Tripathi and Nripendra K Mishra10 Migrants’ entrepreneurship in Germany: the role of social enterprises inthe implementation of self-employment policies 171Maria Kontos11 Self-employment and older workers in the aftermath of the Covid-19pandemic: seniorpreneurs, senior precarious or somewhere in between? 186Philip Taylor, Beate Baldauf, Cal Halvorsen and Geoff Pearman12 Self-employment and disability: evidence for the German case 208Ricardo PaganPART III REGULATION, VISIBILITY AND VOICE13 Regulating self-employment in advanced and emerging countries 228Darcy du Toit and Abigail Osiki14 Exploitation by misclassification of workers’ employment status:examples from the Swedish road freight transport industry ina transnational European context 246Annette Thornquist15 Red tape and juggling acts: the role of regulation in Australian small business 264Tui McKeown, Tim Mazzarol, Geoff Soutar, John Rice and Sujana Adapa16 Perceptions of the self-employed and wage-employed regardinginstitutional conditions affecting entrepreneurship 282Dieter Bögenhold, Martha O’Hagan-Luff, Zulaicha Parastuty and André van Stel17 Self-employment and social protection in Europe: improved protectionamid persistent gaps and fragmentation 296Slavina Spasova and Sepi Roshan18 Interest representation of the solo self-employed 316Lisa Abbenhardt and Hans J. Pongratz19 The collective representation of solo self-employed workers in Europeas an outcome of relations between traditional and new collectiveactors. A focus on the Netherlands, Italy, and Slovakia 332Petr Mezihorak and Annalisa Murgia20 Work practices among self-employed workers in Nigeria: implicationfor occupational safety and health policy 345Funmilayo Juliana Afolabi and Joshua Oluwafisayo Afolabi21 Tackling self-employment in the informal economy in Nordic countries:an evaluation of competing policy approaches 360Colin C WilliamsPART IV TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, INNOVATION AND SKILLS:MOVING INTO THE FUTURE22 Self-employment, innovation, and digital transformation: a review andresearch agenda 378Isidoro Romero and Juan A. Martinez-Roman23 Factors enabling and constraining higher levels of data maturity among SMEs 395Werner Liebregts and Daan Kolkman24 Platform economy, self-employment and quality of work: anassessment during the COVID-19 pandemic 422Karol Muszyński and Valeria Pulignano25 With or without algorithms: managing the self-employed in the Danishplatform economy 440Christian Haldrup, Anna Ilsøe and Trine P Larsen26 Hybrid (solo) self-employment in the digital platform economy: anupskilling pathway? 456Konstantinos Pouliakas and Antonio Ranieri27 Public policy implications of self-employment 484Enrico Reuter and Wieteke Conen