Verplicht ondernemerschap

Since October 2015 there is a political discussion going on in the Netherlands around the requiring of compulsory insurance for the self-employed. In this thesis, the insurance conduct of self-employees is examined on the basis of previously written literature and structured interviews with ten self-employees. The research suggest that distinguishing between different types of self-employed is important for policy. It depends on the type of self-employment whether or not the employee needs public support in insuring against structural risks on the labour market. For the self-employees who are not interested in public influence, it seems that alternative ways of insuring are developing. Those alternatives can only (continue to) be successful if the government does not require insures for all types of self-employees