Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many
individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and flexibility it brings. Using …

The notion that self-employed individuals are more satisfied with their jobs than wage-
employees has found broad empirical support. Previous research exploring the well-being …

This paper examines the relationship between self-employment and two measures of
subjective well-being: personal happiness and life satisfaction. If the self-employed …

The present paper focuses on wellbeing levels of solo self-employed individuals. Although
the wellbeing of self-employed workers has been addressed in various earlier studies …

It is well-known in the literature that self-employment positively influences job satisfaction,
but the effects on other life domains and overall life satisfaction are much less clear. Our …

Despite lower incomes the self-employed often report higher job satisfaction. But this
increased job satisfaction only sometimes translates into higher life satisfaction, likely due to …

Previous research shows that the self-employed generally experience a higher degree of
job satisfaction compared to regular employees. However, our knowledge of subjective well …

Drawing upon the job demand-control model and analyzing more than 600,000 responses
from the nationally representative Gallup survey data over the 2010–2016 period, we find …

There has been a recent growing interest in the relationship between self-employment and
life satisfaction. Using an institutional theory lens, in a multilevel model we test the …

This paper investigates the association of life satisfaction and self-employment experience.
Using a large longitudinal dataset from the Understanding Society survey over the period …