Does the accumulation of self-employment experience impact life satisfaction?

Litsardopoulos, Nicholas; Saridakis, George; Hand, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.jbvi.2021.e00259

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“…Differences among the self-employed were also noted; those who saw opportunities with their businesses and those who had stabilized their businesses over time reported less distress (Stephan 2018 ). Longitudinal studies on job and life satisfaction found that longer time and more persistent careers in self-employment were associated with higher levels in satisfaction (Koch et al 2021 ; Litsardopoulos et al 2021 ).…”

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“…Treating the self-employed as a largely homogenous population is another limitation in previous research. The self-employed are a highly diverse group (Khan et al 2023 ) in which health and well-being varies in men and women (Litsardopoulos et al 2021 ), may depend on education (Ravina-Ripoll et al 2021 ), predictability and control over work load (Stephan 2018 ), but also business characteristics such as type of business and sector (Gauffin and Dunlavy 2021 ; Toivanen et al 2016 ). To address this heterogeneity, studies utilizing a person-centred methodology (Morin et al 2018 ) are needed.…”

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Flourish, fight or flight: health in self-employment over time—associations with individual and business resources

Bernhard-Oettel,

Bergman,

Leineweber

et al. 2024

Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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Purpose Using COR theory to study developments of health and other key resources in self-employed workers in Sweden over 6 years, this study: (1) explored whether the heterogenous group of self-employed workers contained subgroups with different health trajectories, (2) investigated whether these were more typical for certain individuals (with respect to age, gender, sector, education, employment status), and (3) compared the different health trajectories regarding resource development in mental well-being, business resources, employment status, work ability. Method The study used data from the Swedish longitudinal occupational survey of health (SLOSH) and included participants working as self-employed or combiner (N = 2642). Result Five trajectories were identified with latent class growth curve model analysis (LCGM). Two health trajectories with (1) very good, respective (2) good stable health (together comprising 78.5% of the participants), (3) one with moderate stable health (14.8%), (4) one with a U-shaped form (1.9%), and (5) one with low, slightly increasing health (4.7%). The first two trajectories flourish: they maintained or increased in all key resources and were more likely to remain self-employed. Trajectories three and five consist of those who fight to maintain or increase their resources. Workers in the U-shaped health trajectory show signs of fight and flight after loss in health and other key resources. Conclusions Studying subgroups with different resource developments over time was suitable to understand heterogeneity in self-employed workers. It also helped to identify vulnerable groups that may benefit from interventions to preserve their resources.

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Flourish, fight or flight: health in self-employment over time—associations with individual and business resources

Bernhard-Oettel,

Bergman,

Leineweber

et al. 2024

Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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“…The researchers have studied the relationship between self-employment and health, which have laid the foundation for us, but there are still some controversies in these studies. For example, self-employment may help people achieve their work goals and sense of fulfillment [13,14], as well as improve their health perception [15], and self-employed workers were tend to have much better health and work capacities than employees [16,17]. However, Rietveld et al believed that self-employment had a significant negative effect on health [18].…”

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Self-employment and health inequality of migrant workers

Zhou

Wen

2022

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background Self-employment is one of the most common forms of employment for migrant workers in China. However, migrant workers’ lifestyle and behavior, as well as health disparities among them, would be impacted by self-employment. This research aims to explore the mechanism and group differences of the effect of self-employment on health inequality among Chinese migrant workers. Materials and methods To explore the effect of self-employment on health inequalities among migrant workers, this research uses the data from the 2018 China Migrant Workers Dynamic Monitoring Survey, and the RIF-I-OLS decomposition method. Results We find that self-employment will reduce the health inequality of Chinese migrant workers significantly, especially among migrant workers with low education, low income, and low social integration. A further examination reveals that self-employment can directly promote the self-rated health of migrant workers. Additionally, it indirectly alleviates the health inequality among migrant workers by mediating effect of expanding access to public welfare, such as by establishing health records and strengthening health education. Conclusion The government should permit and encourage migrant workers to engage in self-employment. It is necessary to provide public services such as health education, health records, and health rights for migrant workers, and focus on the employment of migrant workers in city, especially those with low income and low education. we believe that measures should be taken to enhance migrant workers’ sense of belonging in urban China Only on this basis can health inequality among migrant workers be truly reduced.

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Precarious Work and Health

Weston

McMunn

2023

Handbook Series in Occupational Health Sciences

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Does the accumulation of self-employment experience impact life satisfaction?

Cited by 6 publications

References 65 publications

Flourish, fight or flight: health in self-employment over time—associations with individual and business resources

Flourish, fight or flight: health in self-employment over time—associations with individual and business resources

Self-employment and health inequality of migrant workers

Precarious Work and Health

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