TY  - GEN
AU  - Baker,Mark
AU  - Égert,Balázs
AU  - Fulop,Gabor
AU  - Mourougane,Annabelle
TI  - To what extent do policies contribute to self-employment?
T2  - OECD Economics Department Working Papers,
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Paris
PB  - OECD Publishing
KW  - Economics
N2  - Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by age, skill and gender. The generosity of unemployment benefits, and to a lesser extent, spending on active labour market policies appear to be robust determinants of the long-term share of self-employed in European countries. No significant relation is found between the stringency of employment protection and aggregate self-employment. However, there are significant, and oppositely signed, impacts on high- and low-skilled self-employed separately. Both the tax wedge and the minimum wage appear to be positively related to the share of self-employed in the long term, but the relation holds for some categories of workers only
UR  - https://s443-doi-org.br.lsproxy.net/10.1787/74c044b1-en
ER  -