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What Social Supports Are Available to Self-Employed People When Ill or Injured? A Comparative Policy Analysis of Canada and Australia

Abstract

Self-employment (SE) is a growing precarious work arrangement internationally. In the current digital age, SE appears in configurations and contours that differ from the labor market of 50 years ago and is part of a 'paradigm shift' from manufacturing/managerial capitalism to entrepreneurial capitalism. Our purpose in this paper is to reflect on how a growing working population of self-employed people accesses social support systems when they …

Authors

Khan TH; MacEachen E; Dunstan D

Journal

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol. 19, No. 9,

Publisher

MDPI

DOI

10.3390/ijerph19095310

ISSN

1661-7827