Challenges for labour statistics Flex workers in the Netherlands Challenges for labour statistics

Share of flex workers in the labour force

Flex work in Europe (EU28), 2016

Challenges Flex workers are a very heterogeneous group→ need for detailed information on different types of flex workers “New” types of flex workers Workers on payroll contracts Dependent self-employed workers Need for longitudinal information on (flexible) employment relations

Data sources on flexible employees Labour Force Survey Policy Record Administration (registration of all insured employees and wages, on a monthly basis) combined with other register information

Employees with a flexible contract, 2016

Payrolling Screening questions LFS 2016→ doesn’t work Extra code in the Policy Record Administration as from January 2017 Explain payrolling

Longitudinal information: careers of flex workers Cohorts of employees who start in a flexible job are followed monthly up to five years (register information) Outflow to: Permanent employment Self-employment Out of work, benefits Out of work, no benefits

Duration of flexible employment

Later cohorts have a lower transition rate to permanent jobs

Cohort 2007: transition rates by educational level

Data sources on self-employment Labour Force Survey System of registers linking information on enterprises (legal entity) with information on the owner/self employed (physical person) (registers from The Chamber of Commerce, Business Register, Tax Administration, policy record administration)

Different types of solo self-employment Different perspectives on self-employment (tax administration, legal, own judgement) Self-employed in own company/practice Pursuing independent activities (e.g. freelancers) Owner-managers of incorporated enterprises Main job or side job? Dependent self employment/fake self-employment Distinction sells labour/sells products Questions on motives to become selfemployed LFS Questions on dependent self-employment LFS Ad hoc module 2017 Use of administrative data on entreprises/persons (entreprise capital) Vanwege de verschillende perspectieven geven verschillende bronnen ook andere uitkomsten!

Solo self-employed workers (registers), 2015

Solo self-employed workers (LFS), 2016

Solo self-employed workers with entreprise capital (registers/LFS), 2014

‘Forced’ self-employed workers: motives to become self-employed (LFS), 2017 Q1

Economic dependence (LFS), 2016

Organisational dependence (LFS), 2016

Longitudinal Information on solo self-employed workers Cohorts of starters are followed yearly (register information) Labour market position before starting solo-self-employment Labour market position after stopping solo-self employment

New solo self-employed workers

Former labour market position

Stopping self-employment

Further research Information on billable hours and hourly rates of solo self-employed workers Linking informations of flex workers and the organisations who hire/employ them: -Temporary employees/ on-call workers→ Policy Record Administration & Business register -Temporary agency workers, payroll workers, solo self-employed workers → not possible yet!

Conclusion Policy makers need detailed longitudinal information on different types of flex workers By combining several sources, both surveys and registers we are able to develop new statistical information on the subject Biggest challenge: linking information of flex workers to information on organisation who employ or hire flex workers

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