Abstract
Self-employment. The Case of Spain
Highlights
The economic literature has addressed the decision of becoming a self-employed worker from two different angles: the macroeconomic and the microeconomic approaches
Once identified the target group of our study in the Continuous Work History Sample (CWHS), we statistically describe it from its sociodemographic characteristics, and from the characteristics related to their working lives
We can reflect the socio-economic reality of the worker-members of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), configuring them as an independent group of the classic self-employed workers and employees
Summary
The economic literature has addressed the decision of becoming a self-employed worker from two different angles: the macroeconomic and the microeconomic approaches. Times of economic recession would be adjusted to this circumstance owing to the high levels of unemployment. In this line, some authors (González, 2009; Cuadrado y Del Río, 1993; Evans y Leighton, 1989) claim that selfemployment revives in the GDP stagnation periods, since the loss of expectation of finding a job of unemployed people forces them to try the adventure of becoming their own bosses (Álvarez et al, 2013; Ceballos, 2016). In the opposite direction, there are works (Carmona et al, 2012; Blanchflower and Oswald, 1991; Taylor, 1996) which claim that cycles of economic prosperity favour the development of new opportunities and, with them, the creation of self-employment jobs
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