BACKGROUND: Self-employment (SE) is a growing precarious and non-standard work
arrangement internationally. Economically advanced countries that favor digital labor …

Background Today's labor market has changed over time, shifting from mostly full-time,
secured, and standard employment relationships to mostly entrepreneurial and precarious …

Background In recent decades, there has been a significant transformation in the world of
work that is characterized by a shift from traditional manufacturing and managerial …

This study explores the impact of self-employment on health and argues that favorable
aspects of autonomy and self-direction notwithstanding, the self-employed are frequently …

Self-employment (SE) is a growing precarious work arrangement internationally. In the
current digital age, SE appears in configurations and contours that differ from the labor …

This study addresses the scarcity of research on health developments in the heterogeneous
group of self-employed workers. It aims at understanding typical health progressions in this …

People who involuntarily leave the labor market due to health problems run the risk of
entering into a vicious circle as exiting the labor market can aggravate their initial health …

Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic created not only a public health crisis but also the largest
disruption to the global economies. The purpose of the paper is to investigate the adverse …

This study reviews key policy challenges relating to solo self‐employed workers––the
segment with increasing shares in the workforce in most developed countries in recent …

This issue features a contribution on precarious employment in Germany, particularly as it
affects the working poor. This is an issue with global relevance. The article outlines the scale …