Why and When Are the Self‐Employed More Satisfied with Their Work?

By G. Hundley. 2001

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation

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Life satisfaction and self-employment: a matching approach (2010, background): “Hundley (2001) finds that the self-employed are more satisfied with their jobs mainly because of greater autonomy, but also because of more flexibility, skill utilization and, to some extent, higher (perceived) job security.”
Job satisfaction and self-employment: autonomy or personality? (2012, background): “…economists generally consider it less likely that personality traits may drive the utility difference between self-employed and employed workers (Hundley 2001; Benz and Frey 2008a), even though variables on psychological attributes or deeply engrained personal values are rarely explicitly taken…”
How Satisfied are the Self-Employed? A Life Domain View (2015, neutral): “We have excluded the category of self-employed farmers (685 obs.) because of difficulties in comparing this work with other jobs (Hundley 2001, p. 299).”
Slipping the surly bonds: The value of autonomy in self-employment (2012, background): “Consistently, selfemployed individuals have been found to report greater job autonomy (Hundley 2001, Thompson et al. 1992) and that the desire for greater autonomy was an important motive in their pursuing self-employment (Feldman and Bolino 2000).”
Job control and demands, work-life balance and wellbeing among self-employed men and women in Europe (2012, background): “This is in line with findings from previous studies (e.g. Gunnarsson, 2010; Hundley, 2001; Lindström et al., 2010).”
Entrepreneurship as a non-profit-seeking activity (2009, positive): “The potential non-material benefits of being an entrepreneur have been researched in recent studies by Benz and Frey (2007), Frey and Benz (2003) and Hundley (2001).”
Public policy to promote entrepreneurship: a call to arms (2016, positive): “Self-employed report they are more satisfied with their jobs because their work provides more autonomy, flexibility and skill utilization and (strangely) greater job security (Hundley 2001).”
Determinants of job satisfaction: a European comparison of self-employed and paid employees (2011, positive): “One distinguishing feature between self-employment and paid employment is that self-employment provides for greater skill utilization (Hundley, 2001).”
The higher returns to formal education for entrepreneurs versus employees (2012, neutral): “…to be an entrepreneur than an employee, despite longer working hours, more risks, and more variable but often lower expected incomes, based on a number of cross-section studies (Blanchflower and Oswald 1998; Hundley 2001) and panel studies (Benz and Frey 2008; Kawagushi 2006; Taylor 1996).”