Increasing self-employment is, alas, not the answer

In the European Union, increasing the number ‘self-employed’ is often seen as a method to make labour markets more flexible and economies more resilient and competitive. This won’t work. And it didn’t work – high numbers of self-employed did not shield countries from the crisis.

Merijn Knibbe http://rwer.wordpress.com/2014/06/08/increasing-self-employment-is-alas-not-the-answer/