The dynamics of combining self-employment and employment

Arbeitspapier

This study examines the extent to which wage-earning workers are simultaneously self-employed, a phenomenon not thoroughly investigated in earlier studies. We use matched employee-employer databases to present a detailed investigation of self-employment patterns within the post industrial sectors in Sweden from 1990 to 2002. We find that persons that combine self-employment with waged work constitute a majority of the total number of self-employed, and that most people enter self-employ-ment by engaging first in combinatory work, indicating that the decision to move to self-employment is more complex than characterized in earlier research.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2008:23

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
• Subject: Self-employment ; income dynamics ; entrepreneurship ; Selbstständige ; Entrepreneurship-Ansatz ; Erwerbsverlauf ; Einkommensverteilung ; Schweden

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Delmar, Frédéric ; Folta, Timothy ; Wennberg, Karl
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)
• (where): Uppsala
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/45729
• Last update: 11.09.2025, 11:34 AM CEST