Exploring Individual and Family-related Characteristics of Hybrid Ent...

This research contributes to the knowledge of individuals called hybrid entrepreneurs who combine full-time paid employment with secondary self-employment activity. We work with a dataset of 30 countries participating in the 2017 European Union Labour Force Survey. We conduct a multivariate analysis of individual and family-related characteristics of hybrid entrepreneurs. Our results highlight that hybrid entrepreneurs are a specific group of the population of self-employed individuals. We show that the highest proportion of hybrid entrepreneurs are doing business in the agricultural sector and live in rural areas. Their business activities seem to be on average younger than those being run by other full-time self-employed individuals. Hybrid entrepreneurs also have, on average higher levels of education. Women are less likely to pursue hybrid entrepreneurship, which is even less likely associated with having caring responsibilities for children. Future research should provide more longitudinal insights into the family-kids related aspects of hybrid entrepreneurship.