Does stricter employment protection legislation promote self-employment?

Robson, M.T.

doi:10.1023/a:1025742423308

Does stricter employment protection legislation promote self-employment?

Robson, M.T.

Authors

Dr Martin Robson m.t.robson@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Abstract

Using recently developed indicators of the strictness of employment protection legislation in OECD countries, the paper examines the issue of whether strict employment protection legislation may promote self-employment by encouraging employers to contract-out work to self-employed workers. Contrary to the results of previous studies, the paper finds little evidence for a positive relationship between self-employment and the strictness of EPL. While the raw data suggest that a positive relationship may indeed exist, once suitable control variables are introduced into the analysis, it appears that if anything, the opposite may be true: i.e. stricter employment protection legislation may actually reduce self-employment.

Citation

Robson, M. (2003). Does stricter employment protection legislation promote self-employment?. Small Business Economics, 21(3), 309-319. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1025742423308

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Nov 1, 2003
Deposit Date	Aug 26, 2008
Publicly Available Date	Aug 26, 2008
Journal	Small Business Economics
Print ISSN	0921-898X
Electronic ISSN	1573-0913
Publisher	Springer
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	21
Issue	3
Pages	309-319
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1025742423308
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1601128