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    Fit for Self-Employment? An extended person-environment fit approach to understand the work-life interface of self-employed workers
    (e-Content Management / Cambridge University Press (CUP): HSS Journals - No Cambridge Open, 2016-10-04) de Jager, W.; Kelliher, Clare; Peters, P.; Bloome, R.; Sakamoto, Y.
    The recent growth in self-employment has sparked scholarly interest in why individuals choose and remain in self-employment. Yet, relatively little is known about how self-employed workers enact their daily lives and what this means for their work–life interface. Self-employment is often presented as a means to enhance life choice and as enabling work and nonwork activities to be combined more satisfactorily. However, extant evidence on how self-employment is experienced is mixed, with some studies reporting long and irregular working hours and high levels of stress. Furthermore, the way in which self-employment is experienced may be influenced by national context – economic, institutional and cultural factors. In this paper, we develop a multi-level model which extends existing work on the Person–Environment Fit by incorporating factors relevant to self-employment. The model assists us to understand how contextual factors create both opportunities and tensions which impact the work–life interface of self-employed workers.