Self-employment and well-being across institutional contexts

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This paper investigates whether the relationship between a person's occupational status and well-being differs across countries with varying institutional contexts. We find that the relationship between job- and life satisfaction of self-employed people as well as of paid employees varies considerably across countries. Our results indicate that entrepreneurship-friendly institutions in a country are conducive to the well-being of self-employed. Remarkably, the quality of entrepreneurial institutions also increases the levels of well-being of paid employees, but the effect is more pronounced for the self-employed.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2018-005

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Entrepreneurship ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles ; Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡ ; Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
• Subject: entrepreneurship ; institutions ; well-being ; life satisfaction ; job satisfaction

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Fritsch, Michael ; Sorgner, Alina ; Wyrwich, Michael
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• (where): Jena
• (when): 2018

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/194229
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET