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Self-employment and technology: different models of labor relations

In: Welfare States in a Turbulent Era

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  • Ferry Koster

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Self-employment and the use of new technology are generally believed to affect labor relations. This chapter brings together the technology-intensity of economies, self-employment, and labor relations by analyzing what is called the standard argumentation: new technology increases self-employment and decreases unionization. This argumentation is investigated in several ways, using a variety of indicators for self-employment, technology-intensity, and labor relations. The results show that the outcomes are not in line with what the standard argumentation suggests (or even opposing it). Besides that, it is proposed that the outcomes are better understood as a matter of clustering of countries than direct relations between technology, self-employment, and labor relations.

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  • Ferry Koster, 2023. "Self-employment and technology: different models of labor relations," Chapters, in: Bent Greve (ed.), Welfare States in a Turbulent Era, chapter 3, pages 28-47, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21743_3
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