The value of doing what you like: Evidence from the self-employed in 23 countries

By Matthias Benz, Bruno S. Frey. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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The entrepreneurial earnings puzzle: Mismeasurement or real? (2014, background): “One reason for preferring entrepreneurship to wage work is higher job satisfaction (Benz and Frey, 2008a,b; Blanchflower, 2000; Hundley, 2001).”
Home Sweet Home: Entrepreneurs' Location Choices and the Performance of Their Ventures (2010, neutral): “Indeed, despite their lower incomes, entrepreneurs consistently report greater job satisfaction than wage earners (Blanchﬂower and Oswald 1998; Benz and Frey 2008).”
Life satisfaction and self-employment: a matching approach (2010, background): “Relatedly, empirical work has shown that employees have a lower job satisfaction in large firms compared to small firms (Idson, 1990; Benz and Frey, 2008a), and this can be explained to a large extent by “procedural” aspects of work such as the nature of the work tasks and the ability to use of…”
How Do Risk Attitudes Differ within the Group of Entrepreneurs? The Role of Motivation and Procedural Utility (2015, neutral): “We argue that entrepreneurs’ utility is a multidimensional construct that goes beyond solely monetary measures and includes several aspects of nonmonetary entrepreneurship (Benz and Frey 2008).”
Women's Perceived Empowerment in Entrepreneurial Efforts: The Role of Bricolage and Psychological Capital (2019, background): “Self-determination “permits the self-employed to enjoy more freedom of choice, but it also allows them to choose the work tasks they find more interesting” (Benz and Frey 2008).”
How Satisfied are the Self-Employed? A Life Domain View (2015, neutral): “These findings are surprising as a reverse relationship is usually found in the literature (e.g., Benz and Frey 2008a; Idson 1990): it is typically argued that smaller companies offer better working conditions and more autonomy to their employees than larger companies, thus leading to higher work…”
What Makes Entrepreneurs Happy? Determinants of Satisfaction Among Founders (2012, background): “Several studies show that self-employed individuals are more satisfied with their jobs than employees (Benz and Frey 2008a; Blanchflower and Oswald 1998; Bradley and Roberts 2004; Hundley 2001; Katz 1993; Thompson et al. 1992).”
Entrepreneurship as a non-profit-seeking activity (2009, neutral): “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, neutral): “Benz and Frey (2008a) discover that more interesting work and greater autonomy are mostly responsible for the difference in job satisfaction scores between entrepreneurs and employees.”
Entrepreneurs’ Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review and Research Agenda (2018, background): “Autonomy, sometimes alongside other work characteristics, explained the majority (Benz & Frey, 2008) or all of the difference in work satisfaction between entrepreneurs and employees (Hytti et al., 2013; Prottas & Thompson, 2006).”
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education in High School on Long-Term Entrepreneurial Performance (2015, background): “DiD estimation to pinpoint the exact effects of JACP participation, since individuals may differ in their innate entrepreneurial ability (Benz and Frey, 2008; Folta et al., 2006; Van Praag and Cramer, 2001; Patel and Fiet, 2010).”
Entrepreneurship and culture (2010, background): “In many studies (Benz and Frey, 2008a, 2008b; Blanchflower and Oswald 1998; Bradley and Roberts 2004) the job satisfaction of the self-employed is, on average, found to be higher than, or at least equal to, that of salaried employees.”