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@article{ Bozzon2022, title = {Independent or Dependent? European Labour Statistics and Their (In)ability to Identify Forms of Dependency in Self-employment}, author = {Bozzon, Rossella and Murgia, Annalisa}, journal = {Social Indicators Research}, number = {1}, pages = {199-226}, volume = {160}, year = {2022}, issn = {1573-0921}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02798-1}, urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-78096-9}, abstract = {In the studies on labour market change and transformation of employment relations, the growth of new forms of self-employment, including platform work, has raised a broad debate about how to define, classify, and analyse the wide range of positions within the heterogeneous category of self-employed workers. This article analyses the emergent methodologies used in European comparative labour statistics to identify forms of dependency in self-employment. Using the 6th wave of the 2015 European Working Condition Survey and the 2017 ad hoc module on self-employment from the European Labour Force Survey, this article discusses how the representation of dependent self-employment changes by adopting a different operationalization of economic and operational dependency. Findings show how different indicators of dependency change the representation of self-employment in different economic sectors, affecting our understanding of the transformation of working arrangements within self-employment and the boundaries between employment and self-employment.}, keywords = {berufliche Selbständigkeit; self-employment; Abhängigkeit; dependence; wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeit; economic dependence; Wirtschaftssektor; economic sector; Selbständiger; self-employed person}}