Labour Market Trajectories of the Self-employed in the Netherlands
Abstract This paper employs sequence analysis to study the labour market trajectories of the self-employed. Using Dutch administrative data on more than 50,000 individuals including 13,000 with self-employment experience between 1989 and 2017, we find seven different clusters with distinct life-cycle patterns of several types of self-employment, wage employment, and non-employment. We find large heterogeneity across clusters in terms of income, wealth, and pension accumulation. In particular, the clusters of individuals with short self-employment spells but little labour market attachment in o... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
| Reihe/Periodikum: | De Economist ; volume 168, issue 1, page 109-146 ; ISSN 0013-063X 1572-9982 |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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| Schlagwörter: | Economics and Econometrics |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27236076 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10645-020-09358-x |
Abstract This paper employs sequence analysis to study the labour market trajectories of the self-employed. Using Dutch administrative data on more than 50,000 individuals including 13,000 with self-employment experience between 1989 and 2017, we find seven different clusters with distinct life-cycle patterns of several types of self-employment, wage employment, and non-employment. We find large heterogeneity across clusters in terms of income, wealth, and pension accumulation. In particular, the clusters of individuals with short self-employment spells but little labour market attachment in other periods are an economically vulnerable group, whereas those who are persistently self-employed are not worse off than employees.