To be or not to be. . . self-employed? Toward addressing the job quality debate and its challenges
Economic and Industrial Democracy: An International Journal
Published online on October 24, 2025
Abstract
Economic and Industrial Democracy, Ahead of Print.
Self-employed workers’ relative job quality is a matter of theoretical and policy debate. Whereas the precarity framework highlights employees’ good job quality especially compared to independent contractors, this study conceptualizes “self-employment/...
Self-employed workers’ relative job quality is a matter of theoretical and policy debate. Whereas the precarity framework highlights employees’ good job quality especially compared to independent contractors, this study conceptualizes “self-employment/...