scholarly journals How does self‐employment affect pension income? A comparative analysis of European welfare states

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Höppner
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Pension Income ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
European Welfare States

scholarly journals Having a Post-Retirement Job: Improvisation and Containing Commitments

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 416-417
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Ignatowicz ◽  
Hugo Westerlund ◽  
Dara Rasoal ◽  
Loretta Platts
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Pension Income ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Financial Consequences ◽  
Constant Comparative Analysis ◽  
Purposive Sample

Abstract This qualitative paper focuses on individuals who work after pensionable age, a distinctive period in the late career when workers are supported by the known and reliable income of a pension. Using constant comparative analysis, we analyzed interviews from a purposive sample of 25 Swedish people in their late sixties and early seventies. We examined conditions for being in paid work in terms of enabling factors (self-employment, shift work, shortage occupation), improvisation, and the role of chance. The interviews revealed that post-retirement workers took charge of the aspects of work that mattered most to them, evading the disciplinary aspects of work by controlling scheduling and limiting the duration of their commitment. These constrained commitments had knock-on effects of improving psychosocial working conditions. Women and immigrants—groups facing low pensions—experienced the greatest financial consequences of being unable to work in their retirement years in order to supplement their pension income.

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.

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