Life satisfaction and self-employment: a matching approach

By Martin Binder, Alex Coad. 2010

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Management of Technology and Innovation, Social Psychology

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Measuring the impact of innovative human capital on small firms' propensity to innovate (2015, background): “Work is an important part of human life and has a strong effect on a person’s happiness or satisfaction with life (Binder and Coad, 2013).”
Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh (2019, background): “life satisfaction and satisfaction with various life domains (Binder and Coad, 2013; Binder and Coad, 2016; Johansson Sevä et al., 2016), quality of life (Kautonen et al.”
Entrepreneurs’ Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review and Research Agenda (2018, background): “Some studies imply a notion of ‘fit’, such that individuals who actively chose to be entrepreneurs may reap the MWB-benefits of autonomy as opposed to necessity entrepreneurs (Binder & Coad, 2013), or that optimists thrive in settings of high autonomy and challenge (Totterdell et al., 2006).”
Does Higher Education Increase Hedonic and Eudaimonic Happiness? (2016, background): “This approach has previously been in the context of self-employment (Binder and Coad, 2013).”
Advancing the Psychology of Entrepreneurship: A Review of the Psychological Literature and an Introduction (2016, background): “Finally, for the individual entrepreneur entrepreneurship can be a highly satisfying career choice (Binder & Coad, 2013).”
Muppets and gazelles: political and methodological biases in entrepreneurship research (2014, neutral): “One option would be to follow a simple hierarchy (or “pecking order”) of employment states, that goes from (i) employers, to (ii) employees, to (iii) self-employed, to (iv) unemployed, based on empirical evidence about relative wages (Tamvada, 2010; Binder and Coad, 2013) and productivity.”
What makes work meaningful and why economists should care about it (2020, background): “Nevertheless, the self-employed enjoy greater mental health and subjective well-being compared to similar regular employees (Benz and Frey, 2008; Binder and Coad, 2013; Blanchflower and Oswald, 1998; Hessels et al., 2018; Nikolova and Graham, 2014; Nikolova, 2019).”
Switching to self-employment can be good for your health (2019, background): “…unemployment to self-employment and opportunity entrepreneurship as those who switch from regular paid employment to self-employment (Binder and Coad, 2013, 2016; Block and Sandner, 2009; Fairlie and Fossen, 2018).11 Whether one becomes self-employed to escape unemployment or to pursue one's…”
How Satisfied are the Self-Employed? A Life Domain View (2015, neutral): “In order to justify the identifying assumption, we have selected our matching variables drawing on the subjective well-being and entrepreneurship literature (and with an eye to maintaining comparability to the study of Binder and Coad 2013).”
Entrepreneurship, Self-Organization, and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Dynamic Approach (2021, background): “…on hedonic measures of well- being (e.g., measures of affect and life satisfaction) in assessing differences in well- being between entrepreneurs and non- entrepreneurs (mostly understood as selfemployed; e.g., Benz & Frey, 2008; Binder & Coad, 2013; Nikolaev et al., 2020; Stephan et al., 2020).”