%0 Report
        %A Fritsch, Michael
%A Sorgner, Alina
%A Wyrwich, Michael
        %T Types of Institutions and Well-Being of Self-Employed and Paid Employees in Europe
        %D 2019
        %8 2019 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 12336
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp12336
        %X This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship-facilitating entry conditions, labor market regulations, quality of government, and perception of corruption for individual well-being among self-employed and paid employed individuals. Well-being is operationalized by job and life satisfaction of individuals in 32 European countries measured by data from EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). We find that institutions never affected both occupational groups in opposite ways. Our findings indicate that labor market institutions do not play an important role well-being. The results suggest that fostering an entrepreneurial society in Europe is a welfare enhancing strategy that benefits both, the self-employed and paid employees. 
        %K entrepreneurship
%K institutions
%K well-being
%K life satisfaction
%K job satisfaction