Social Protection Rights of Economically Dependent Self-Employed Workers
The study analyses the role of economically dependent self-employed workers in the labour market by taking institutional factors into account, such as labour law and social protection rights. In addition to setting out the reasons for the increase of dependent self-employed workers, the authors provide case studies across various sectors of selected EU Member States. While the phenomenon of dependent self-employment is highly diverse across EU Member States, it has become increasingly important and can be regarded as part of a general trend towards increasing labour market flexibilisation.
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Eichhorst, Werner (IZA, coordinator), Braga, Michela (Fondazione DeBenedetti), Famira-Mühlberger, Ulrike (WIFO), Gerard, Maarten (IDEA Consult), Horvath, Thomas (WIFO), Kahanec, Martin (CELSI), Kahancová, Marta (CELSI), Kendzia, Michael (IZA), Martišková, Monika (CELSI), Monti, Paola (Fondazione DeBenedetti), Pedersen, Jakob Louis (NIRAS), Stanley, Julian (University of Warwick), Vandeweghe, Barbara (IDEA Consult), Wehner, Caroline (IZA) and White, Caroline (University of Warwick)
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- employment
- EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- labour flexibility
- labour law
- labour law and labour relations
- labour market
- labour relations
- new type of employment
- non-standard employment
- organisation of work and working conditions
- production
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- self-employed person
- self-employment
- social framework
- social protection
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- social security
- socioeconomic conditions
- subcontracting
- working conditions