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'Involuntary self-employment' in Finland: a bleak future?

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  • Teemu Kautonen
  • Jenni Palmroos
  • Pekka Vainio

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'Involuntary self-employment' has recently received considerable political and media attention in Finland. The notion of involuntary self-employment has been used to refer to situations where an employer seeks increased flexibility and cost efficiency by 'pushing' former employees into new forms of precarious self-employment. Although the terminology used varies, the phenomenon itself is known across Europe. However, little empirical evidence exists as to the characteristics and scope of involuntary self-employment. This paper addresses this research gap by defining five characteristics of involuntary self-employment and, based on these, analysing survey data from 850 Finnish small firms to explore its scope. The results show that the phenomenon is marginal in relation to the Finnish small business population as a whole. Hence, it seems to exist at most in certain sectoral niches that are small enough to remain 'hidden' in broad cross-sectoral samplings.

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  • Teemu Kautonen & Jenni Palmroos & Pekka Vainio, 2009. "'Involuntary self-employment' in Finland: a bleak future?," International Journal of Public Policy, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(6), pages 533-548.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpubp:v:4:y:2009:i:6:p:533-548
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    1. Colin C. Williams, 2023. "A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 18668.
    2. Raquel Carrasco & Virginia Hernanz, 2022. "Dependent self-employment across Europe: involuntariness, country’s wealth and labour market institutions," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(14), pages 1568-1583, March.
    3. Colin C. Williams & Ioana Alexandra Horodnic, 2017. "Tackling Bogus Self-Employment: Some Lessons From Romania," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 22(02), pages 1-20, June.
    4. Lian Kösters & Wendy Smits, 2022. "‘Genuine’ or ‘Quasi’ Self-Employment: Who Can Tell?," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 161(1), pages 191-224, May.
    5. Muhammad Shehzad Hanif & Muhammad Imran Hanif & Yunfei Shao, 2018. "Contemplating the Antecedents of a Sustainable Work Life in an Emerging Economy: Lessons from Early Retirees in the ICT Sector of Pakistan," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-21, December.
    6. Rony Germon & Séverine Leloarne & Myriam Razgallah & Myriam Razgallah & Adnane Maalaoui, 2019. "The Role of Sexual Orientation in Entrepreneurial Intention: The Case of Parisian LGB People," Working Papers 2019-007, Department of Research, Ipag Business School.

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