- ASA 2021 Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation
- Edited by Bruno Bertaccini, Luigi Fabbris, Alessandra Petrucci
Measuring the movement between employment and self-employment: a survey proposal
- Luigi Fabbris
- Paolo Feltrin
- © 2021 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-304-8.14
The study concerns the following issues: 1) basic definitions (traditional craftsmanship and commercial work, self-employment, freelance jobs, learned professions, etc.); 2) analysis of the sources on, and the organizations representing the workers of the self-employment compound; 3) medium-to-long term analysis of the main components of the self-employment compound and of the occupation in self-employment companies. We examined various statistical sources on self-employment in Italy, a category including about 5.5 million workers, according to official estimates. We examined the yearly data of the time span from 2009 to 2019, with a concept about 2020, the Covid-19 year. In the examined period, we highlighted a dramatic reduction at employment entry of younger cohorts of less educated people (about one million people), just partly compensated by an increase of new entries of aged and highly educated people. The study concludes with a proposal of a set of questions on self-employment that could be used to adjust the specific part of the questionnaire used by Istat for the survey on the Italian labour forces.
- Keywords:
- Self-employment,
- Definitions and sources,
- Questionnaire design,
- Italian labour forces,
University of Padua, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-8657-8361
University of Trieste, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-2801-5151
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Measuring the movement between employment and self-employment: a survey proposal
Authors
Luigi Fabbris, Paolo Feltrin
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-304-8.14
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Publication Year
2021
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© 2021 Author(s)
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Book Title
ASA 2021 Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation
Book Subtitle
Book of short papers of the opening conference
Editors
Bruno Bertaccini, Luigi Fabbris, Alessandra Petrucci
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2021
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© 2021 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-304-8
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978-88-5518-304-8
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978-88-5518-305-5
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Proceedings e report
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2704-601X
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2704-5846