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Labour market trajectories of the Self-employed in the Netherlands

Beusch,Elisabeth
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van Soest,Arthur
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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.
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2020-03
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sequence analysis, self-employment, pensions, life-cylce, J62 - Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility, J32 - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits ; Retirement Plans ; Private Pensions, J23 - Labor Demand, L26 - Entrepreneurship, D15 - Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving, SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
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Beusch, E & van Soest, A 2020, 'Labour market trajectories of the Self-employed in the Netherlands', Economist-Netherlands, vol. 168, no. 1, pp. 109-146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10645-020-09358-x
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14602/73405
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