Self-Employment in Great Britain: Its Definition in the Labour Force Survey, in Tax and Social Security Law and in Labour Law

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Casey ◽  
Stephen Creigh
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Self Employment

scholarly journals Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labor market matching: a comparison between immigrants and natives

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-501
Author(s):  
Magdalena Ulceluse
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Barriers To Employment ◽  
Labor Market Matching ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThe paper investigates the relation between overeducation and self-employment, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012 and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and general characteristics of 30 destination countries, it finds that the likelihood of being overeducated decreases for self-employed immigrants, with inconclusive results for self-employed natives. The results shed light on the extent to which immigrants adjust to labor market imperfections and barriers to employment and might help explain the higher incidence of self-employment that immigrants exhibit, when compared to natives. This is the first study to systematically study the nexus between overeducation and self-employment in a comparative framework. Moreover, the paper tests the robustness of the results by employing two different measures of overeducation, contributing to the literature of the measurement of overeducation.

scholarly journals Have British Jews fully assimilated in the UK Labour Market?

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Nabil Khattab
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Occupational Attainment ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Majority Group ◽  
The Uk

<p class="pagecontents"><span lang="EN-GB">This paper analyses the patterns of occupational attainment and earnings among the Jewish community in Britain using UK Labour Force Survey data (2002-2010). The findings suggest that although British-Jews cannot be distinguished from the majority main stream population of British-White in terms of their overall occupational attainment and earnings, it seems that they have managed to integrate through patterns of self-employment and concentration in the service sector economy, particularly in banking and financial services. It is argued that this self-employment profile is a Jewish strategy used to minimise dependency on majority group employers and by doing so to helping to escape any religious penalties.</span></p>

scholarly journals Self-Employment and Labour Market Transitions in New Zealand

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinyi Shao ◽  
Mallika Kelkar
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Labour Market Transitions ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
Market Transitions

Self-employment in New Zealand has been trending up in the past two years, following subdued growth between 2000 and 2010. Self-employed people made up 11.3% of total employed in the year to March 2012 (251,800 workers), compared with 10.1% in the year to March 2010. Self-employment is defined in this paper as those people operating their own business without employees. The paper explores time series trends in self-employment, in particular across three post-recession periods. Characteristics of self-employed workers are also identified. This paper also investigates movements in and out of self-employment in order to understand the recent growth in this type of employment. The analysis uses longitudinal Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) data. The HLFS provides official measures of a range of labour market indicators, including the number of people employed, unemployed and not in the labour force.

Self-employment in Poland — definitional problems, the availability of data and their interpretation

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogusław Lasocki ◽  
Małgorzata Skrzek-Lubasińska
Keyword(s):  
National Economy ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Fourth Quarter ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Definition Of

The article gives an overview of the definitions of „self-employment” and „self-employed” used both by the Polish and international institutions. Authors present a great ambiguity of the terms used. Due to the growing role of self-employment in the national economy authors postulate a modification of the classification of groups of self-employed and unification of concepts defining this category of work. A proposal for definition of self-employment was submitted for the purposes of Polish official statistics. The authors present the scale of self-employment in Poland in the fourth quarter of 2014 resulting from Polish labour force survey.

Determinants of immigrant self-employment in Spain

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 895-911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Begoña Cueto ◽  
Vanesa Rodríguez Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Region Of Origin ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine immigrant self-employment in Spain. The study aims to determine the likelihood of immigrants being self-employed, the differences between Spaniards and immigrants in terms of self-employment and differences among immigrants from different regions of origin. Design/methodology/approach – Data from the Labour Force Survey for 2005-2011 are used for a descriptive analysis of self-employment. Logit regressions allow us to study the determinants of immigrant self-employment. Findings – Unlike research conducted in other countries, the rate of immigrant self-employment in Spain is lower than that of nationals, although differences exist according to the region of origin. Men and older individuals are more likely to be self-employed. Those with higher levels of education are also more likely to be self-employed – this may be attributable to the decreased availability of skilled positions for immigrants. Research limitations/implications – The sample size does not allow for differential analyses regarding the region of origin or the existence and influence of enclaves. Practical implications – Self-employment may be an opportunity for immigrants to improve their position in the labour market, especially in the case of highly skilled workers. Originality/value – In Spain, analyses of immigrant self-employment are rare and generally focus on case studies. However, this study covers the whole population within a highly specific economic situation.

Employment of Return Migrants in Turkey: Evidence from the Labour Force Survey

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-451
Author(s):  
Deniz Yetkin Aker ◽  
Ayhan Görmüş
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Work Status ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Return Migrants ◽  
Statistical Institute

Based on Labour Force Survey data conducted by Turkish Statistical Institute, this study aims at discussing economic integration of return migrants in general and determining whether there are significant differences between return migrants and non-migrants in terms of the effects of demographic factors and work-status nominators on their employment. The study argues that the returnees face far more employment challenges compared to non-migrants. The results of the study suggest that holding a university or postgraduate degree facilitates the employment of returnees to a certain degree. However, lower levels of educational attainment, employment lacking social security and micro-sized establishments pose several challenges. 

scholarly journals Bios, mythoi and women entrepreneurs: A Wynterian analysis of the intersectional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed women and women-owned businesses

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 391-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Martinez Dy ◽  
Dilani Jayawarna
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Employed Women ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
And Gender

Decolonial philosopher Sylvia Wynter theorises the human animal as formed by both bios and mythoi, or matter and meaning. This article adopts this ontological perspective to explore the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on UK self-employed women and women-owned businesses through an intersectional lens accounting for race, class and gender. We argue that unequal health outcomes from COVID-19 are not solely biological; rather, they are also the outcome of social inequalities. Drawing upon the Wynterian elaboration of Fanon’s work on sociogeny – the shaping of the embodied human experience by the norms of given society – to explain this phenomenon, we contend that the same inequalities emerging in health outcomes will be reflected in entrepreneurship and self-employment. Drawing on Labour Force Survey data for the past decade, we peer through the Wynterian prism of bios and mythoi to argue that marginalised entrepreneurs are likely to experience extreme precarity due to COVID-19 and so require targeted support.

scholarly journals The Return to a University Education in Great Britain

2005 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 75-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel C. O'Leary ◽  
Peter J. Sloane
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
University Education ◽  
Rate Of Return ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Considerable Heterogeneity ◽  
Important Policy ◽  
Broad Subject ◽  
Using Data

In this paper, we estimate the rate of return to first degrees, Masters degrees and PhDs in Britain using data from the Labour Force Survey. We estimate returns to broad subject groups and more narrowly defined disciplines, distinguishing returns by gender and controlling for variations in student quality across disciplines. The results reveal considerable heterogeneity in returns to particular degree programmes and by gender, which have important policy implications for charging students for the costs of their education.

‘Life is War’

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Rizzo
Keyword(s):  
Informal Economy ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Employment Relationships ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Wage Labour ◽  
Wage Employment

This chapter has two goals. First, it unpacks the private sector, asking who owns what in the bus public transport sector to reveal the significance of socio-economic differentiation and class. Drawing on grey literature, a labour relations questionnaire, newspapers, and interviews with bus owners and workers, the chapter shows that informal and highly precarious wage employment relationships are central to understanding why private buses operate as they do. The second goal is to question the claim that informal wage employment hardly exists. The categories and terms with which workers describe their employment situation are contrasted with those used to frame the questions in the 2006 Labour Force Survey. The analysis scrutinizes how key employment concepts and terms have been translated from English, and how the translation biases respondents’ answers towards ‘self-employment’, thus contributing to the invisibility of wage labour in statistics on employment in the informal economy.

Economic Variations and Their Impact on Labor Legislation Throughout History in Argentina

2018 ◽  
pp. 77-98
Author(s):  
Andrea Isabel Franconi
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Employment Contracts ◽  
Labor Legislation ◽  
Labour Legislation ◽  
Relationship Of

Throughout history, Argentina has undergone a series of profound economic variations, which, as such, have produced a strong impact on labor legislation and social security. The access key in Argentina to labour law protection is the existence of a relationship of dependence. This turns to be an inclusive and exclusive condition because it divides strictly the labour market and the labour force inherent in two different areas, namely, the subordinate workers (who are included in the labour protection system) and the rest of the employees, including among the latest, the ones involved in non-typical forms of employment contracts. For such purposes, it is important to analyze different periods of time, selecting the more significant ones to see the evolution of Argentinean labour legislation. It is also relevant to describe the consequences caused by economic and political variations on collective bargaining in order to understand the composition of the actual labour force in Argentina.

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