In Japan, a third of self-employed people no longer contribute to the basic pension system.
Here at the BBC we have interviewed many self-employed people in recent months, including for tonight's piece for the television bulletins.
And one element of the labour market which we do know has changed is the boost to the number of self-employed people.
Job seekers' allowance to be made available quickly to people thrown out of work by the outbreak and to some self-employed people.
However, for small businesses, self-employed people, or customer-focused individuals like insurance agents or financial advisers, it could be a really handy tool.
But the number of employees working full-time has fallen 120, 000 and the number of self-employed people working full time has risen by 132, 000.
He said the co-ordination of social security legislation was portrayed as a "safety net" for hard-working self-employed people who fall on hard times.
The number of self-employed people in the UK has increased by nearly 10% since the start of the economic crisis, a report has found.
My colleagues and I have interviewed quite a lot of newly self-employed people over the past year or so that fit this hard-working stereotype.
Financial planner Modly says HSAs make sense for small companies trying to contain health insurance costs, for self-employed people and for those whose employers offer no health insurance.
Self-employed people were also found to work longer hours than employees.
Those are mostly self-employed people operating unincorporated businesses.
Among other things, Mr Clement suggests slashing taxes and red tape for small-business start-ups and for self-employed people at the bottom end of the wage scale, as well as easier credit for all Mittelstand firms.
It is not clear, however, that the same people appear in the bottom quintile in 1999 as did in 1977: most studies show a rapid turnover of people in the lowest income group, reflecting temporary problems or self-employed people exploiting tax loopholes.
The phase-out of itemized deductions will add about 1.2% and he will also have to pay a combined Medicare tax rate of 3.8% (the regular 2.9% for self-employed people plus the new 0.9% surtax enacted to help finance the Affordable Care Act).
We need to know more about what these "full-time self-employed" people are actually doing.
As a writer for the small business community, I care deeply about the way entrepreneurs and self-employed business people brand themselves.
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Further, the more people who are self-employed means fewer people who are unemployed.
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Google may not open a Waikiki office any time soon, but resort towns offer plenty of opportunities for entrepreneurs, self-employed professionals and people in the hospitality industry.
One very interesting factor is the pattern where more people are working part-time and more people who are self-employed.
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MEPs debated the new directive which primarily focuses on the rules applying to self-employed workers and to people working in the airline sector, on 17 April 2012.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said 367, 000 more people were self-employed in 2012 compared with 2008 when the crisis began.
"They are not providing employment and now they are creating unemployment for people who are self-employed, " said BJP spokeswoman Nirmala Sitaraman of the government.
"More people often become self-employed in tough times like this, " said John Challenger, CEO of a top employment firm for executives and middle managers.
In Pembroke Pines, not far from Fort Lauderdale, a slow but steady stream of customers comes through the door at the Florida Blue store: retirees, the self-employed, small business owners, young people just starting their careers.
In most countries, more people want to be self-employed than think they can.
Having a website and managing e-mails has remained an essential for its business clients and, while some have collapsed, the downturn has led to many more people going freelance and self-employed, setting up their own small businesses and needing these services.
But people earning a living as self-employed traders may need to pay income tax, national insurance and VAT.
Out of 73 million hourly paid people (excluding all the self-employed) some 4.3 million get the minimum wage or less.
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