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"Im Vergleich zwischen den Niederlanden und Deutschland zeigen sich Parallelen in der Struktur der Selbstständigkeit bezogen auf die Branchen, die Qualifizierung, den Anteil von Frauen, die Altersverteilung und die Arbeitszufriedenheit. Befragte in Deutschland geben als Motiv für die Solo-Selbstständigkeit häufiger „Push-Faktoren“ an als Befragte in den Niederlanden, d. h. Gründungen erfolgen häufiger „aus der Not heraus“. Der Anteil der „prekären“ Solo-Selbstständigen ist in Deutschland größer und der Anteil der „Gewinn erwirtschaftenden“ und „abgesicherten“ Solo-Selbstständigen kleiner als in den Niederlanden. Der größere Anteil „prekärer“ Solo-Selbstständiger in Deutschland könnte auf Unterschiede in der Lohnstruktur und der sozialen Absicherung zurückzuführen sein. Gemessen am Zugang zu den Sozialversicherungssystemen und an deren Leistungen ist die soziale Absicherung in den Niederlanden deutlich umfassender als in Deutschland."

"Diese WSI-Studie zeigt Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in der Entwicklung und der Struktur der Solo-Selbstständigkeit im Vergleich zwischen den Niederlanden und Deutschland auf. Die Befunde zeigen, dass das Wachstum dieser Erwerbskategorie in den Niederlanden besonders stark ausfiel – hier war im letzten Jahrzehnt eine der höchsten Zuwachsraten Europas zu verzeichnen. In Deutschland verlief der Anstieg der Solo-Selbstständigkeit wesentlich moderater. In beiden Ländern umfasst der Zuwachs besonders Ältere und gut Qualifizierte sowie verschiedene Dienstleistungsbereiche und die Bauwirtschaft. In Deutschland sind „Gründungen aus der Not“ häufiger und der Anteil unfreiwilliger und prekärer Selbstständigkeit höher als in den Niederlanden."

"This WSI Study gives an overview of the position of solo self-employed in Germany and the Netherlands by examining - in their institutional context - labour market characteristics and social security provisions. The Study has been prepared within the project 'Self-employed without personnel: between freedom and insecurity', funded by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. It draws on results from desk research, analyses of existing statistical data, survey research and interviews with self-employed without personnel. The research was conducted by a research team from Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.) in collaboration with the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI)."

"Since the 1970s the long term decline in self-employment has slowed – and even reversed in some countries – and the prospect of ‘being your own boss' is increasingly topical in the discourse of both the general public and within academia. Traditionally, self-employment has been associated with independent entrepreneurship, but increasingly it is linked to being a form of precarious work. This book utilises evidence-based information to address both the current and future challenges of this trend as the nature of self-employment changes, as well as to demonstrate where, when and why self-employment has emerged as precarious work in Europe.

Bringing together leading international experts in the field, this book provides insight into key issues surrounding self-employment from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Covering existing theory and context, providing empirical results of studies into self-employment and precarious work from across Europe, and discussion of the implications of this research, it offers key insights into future avenues for research."

"This article contributes to research on the embeddedness of multiple work arrangements in the employment biography. We investigate transition and duration effects of multiple jobholding on financial and non-financial job outcomes, and the role of flexible work arrangements and household contexts. To that end, we examine panel data from Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands for the period between 2002 and 2017. The findings underscore the importance of economic factors in the decision to work multiple jobs and reveal that labour market contexts play a significant role in outcomes. Findings furthermore indicate negative well-being effects for those who have both multiple jobs and children. For a substantial share of workers, holding multiple jobs occurs in relatively short-term episodes, posing the question of whether episodes of multiple jobholding necessarily come with either clear enrichment or depletion effects, or are merely a phase in the overall employment biography."

"The scope and structure of multiple jobholding and its consequences for multiple jobholders are changing in many Western economies. Only limited quantitative empirical knowledge is currently available on the changing features of multiple jobholding and whether the economic vulnerability of multiple jobholders has been changing over time. In this article we focus on the position and trends of multiple jobholders compared with single jobholders in Europe. We study this in terms of working hours, workers' desire to work more hours, and in-work poverty. To that end, we analyse data since the early 2000s from the EU Labour Force Survey and from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. Our findings show that multiple jobholding is a significant and increasing labour market phenomenon in many advanced economies, with changing characteristics, for example in terms of gender distribution and combinations of contracts. In-work poverty is relatively high among non-standard workers, but the findings do not indicate a deteriorating trend effect. In-work poverty seems to be on the rise among people who are single, for both single jobholders and multiple jobholders."