Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
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Social Sciences, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary, Social Sciences - Other Topics, self-employment, social protection, welfare state regimes, insurance schemes, MARKET, FAMILY, STATE, 1605 Policy and Administration, 1607 Social Work, 1608 Sociology, 4404 Development studies, 4407 Policy and administration
Abstract:
Given the mounting importance of self-employment on the political and policy agenda on a national and EU level, this article sheds light on the under- researched area of social protection for these workers. It focuses on their statutory access to social protection schemes in 35 European countries. We classify social protection systems into three categories based on the access they provide to insurance-based schemes for the self-employed. Crucially, we discuss the link between statutory access to social protection for these workers and typologies of welfare regimes and show that it tends to follow the main institutional patterns of these.