TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fritsch, Michael
AU  - Sorgner, Alina
AU  - Wyrwich, Michael
        TI  - Types of Institutions and Well-Being of Self-Employed and Paid Employees in Europe
        PY  - 2019/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12336
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp12336
        AB  - 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. 
        KW  - entrepreneurship
KW  - institutions
KW  - well-being
KW  - life satisfaction
KW  - job satisfaction
        ER  -