Fritsch, MichaelSorgner, AlinaWyrwich, Michael2025-02-262025-02-262019Fritsch, Michael, Alina Sorgner, and Michael Wyrwich. “Types of Institutions and Well-Being of Self-Employed and Paid Employees in Europe.” Small Business Economics 56 (2): 877–901. 2019.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00274-2https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/909This 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 for 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.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/EntrepreneurshipInstitutionsSubjective well-beingLife satisfactionJob satisfactionArticle